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  • adverb In a sensical way; reasonably, sanely.

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Examples

  • But when I see an idiot like Paul use it so fantastically incorrectly and non-sensically — and then crow about how supposedly stupid I am for pointing out the correct version — I have to say something.

    Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010

  • As many of you know, we discuss love relationships, psychically and common-sensically, on the famous Radio From Hell show every Friday morning (KXRK 96.3 FM - www. x96.com).

    Margaret Ruth: The Single Best Working Assumption for Drama-Free Relationships 2009

  • As many of you know, we discuss love relationships, psychically and common-sensically, on the famous Radio From Hell show every Friday morning (KXRK 96.3 FM - www. x96.com).

    Margaret Ruth: The Single Best Working Assumption for Drama-Free Relationships 2009

  • On the other hand the basic science is pretty simple and I would find it common sensically suprising if the changes of the 20th century had no effect.

    In Praise of Nimby`s Newmania 2007

  • As many of you know, we discuss love relationships, psychically and common-sensically, on the famous Radio From Hell show every Friday morning (KXRK 96.3 FM - www. x96.com).

    Margaret Ruth: The Single Best Working Assumption for Drama-Free Relationships 2009

  • The free trader arguments are reversed and applied common-sensically – if the rich countries believe in free trade so much, why not let the developing countries decide if they want to restrict foreign investment or not rather than impose non-restrictive regulations through trade agreements?

    Book Review - Bad Samaritans - Ha-Joon chang 2008

  • But I also believe that we can common-sensically approach this.

    Notable & Quotable 2008

  • Small businesses in particular suffer from the vast amount of legislation that non-sensically impacts on small businesses, a fact that is well known to the Federation of Smalll Businesses FSB.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • What proponents of sense data (or adverbial contents) will say, however, is that these points fail to show that the perceptual awareness of material objects is direct or immediate in the sense discussed earlier: no tendency to show that material objects (as common-sensically understood) are literally contained within or features of experience.

    Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007

  • Boston Phoenix media critic Dan Kennedy an occasional UU World contributor takes a look at the Terri Schiavo case and common-sensically concludes that Michael Schiavo is telling the truth about his wife's wishes but also that video clips of her are "absolutely convincing that she is semi-aware, semi-responsive, and able to understand people in some dim way."

    Philocrites: When everyone's on the jury. 2005

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