All 3 Uses of
judicious
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- Petitions came in to President Lincoln from distinguished citizens and organizations, strongly urging a comprehensive and unified plan of dealing with the freedmen, under a bureau which should be "charged with the study of plans and execution of measures for easily guiding, and in every way judiciously and humanely aiding, the passage of our emancipated and yet to be emancipated blacks from the old condition of forced labor to their new state of voluntary industry."†
Chpt 2judiciously = in a manner that shows good judgment
- Thirdly, the landlords as a class have not yet come to realize that it is a good business investment to raise the standard of living among labor by slow and judicious methods; that a Negro laborer who demands three rooms and fifty cents a day would give more efficient work and leave a larger profit than a discouraged toiler herding his family in one room and working for thirty cents.†
Chpt 8
- Like some grave shadow he flitted by those halls, pleading, arguing, half angrily demanding admittance, until there came the final NO: until men hustled the disturber away, marked him as foolish, unreasonable, and injudicious, a vain rebel against God's law.†
Chpt 12 *injudicious = not showing good judgmentstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in injudicious means not and reverses the meaning of judicious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definition:
showing good judgment