Thesaurus / discerning
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Daniel Enemark, senior economist at the San Diego Workforce Partnership, said the competitive job market and increases in inflation are making job hunters more discerning.
CITY PARKS AND REC VACANCIES THROTTLE REOPENING EFFORTSLISA HALVERSTADTNOVEMBER 10, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOSocial media is not very discerning when it comes to nude art.
VIENNA’S MUSEUMS ARE MOVING THEIR CENSORED NUDE IMAGES TO ONLYFANSSCOTT NOVEROCTOBER 18, 2021QUARTZIf you are trying to be more discerning, the spreadsheet put together by Prussin and Marr, as well as one put together by mechanical engineer Aaron Collins, offer specific recommendations.
HOW TO CHOOSE AND CARE FOR YOUR KID’S MASKSELLIOT HASPELAUGUST 24, 2021WASHINGTON POSTDogs, we are told, have more discerning senses of smell and hearing than we do, and birds of prey can see a rodent scurrying in the grass from hundreds of feet away.
WE’RE AT HOME AMONG TREES — WHICH MIGHT BE ABLE TO SENSE OUR PRESENCERICHARD SCHIFFMANJULY 23, 2021WASHINGTON POSTAs a result, startup founders are trying to become more discerning about venture funding, rather than viewing it merely as free money.
DESPITE HUNGRY VCS, DTC BRANDS ARE RETHINKING THEIR FUNDRAISING APPROACHANNA HENSELJANUARY 8, 2021DIGIDAYThe early recognition of pictured objects, of which certain animals have a measure, is often strikingly discerning.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYHad she, so observant, so discerning in her fastidious taste—had she failed to notice the small detail too?
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODDiscerning a dark object among the branches, he shrinks back, crosses stage, and goes out through the wood to the left.
FIFTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYSVARIOUSAfter dinner, the discerning eye of the co-mother-in-law divines the work of darkness.
THE PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE, COMPLETEHONORE DE BALZACIt was, she knew, a precious privilege to know a poet, and to see the natural and spiritual worlds through his discerning eyes.
COUNTRY NEIGHBORSALICE BROWNWORDS RELATED TO DISCERNING
- aesthetic
- civil
- classy
- courteous
- courtly
- cultivated
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- elegant
- enlightened
- exact
- fastidious
- fine
- finespun
- genteel
- gracious
- high-brow
- high-minded
- nice
- plush
- polished
- polite
- posh
- precise
- punctilious
- restrained
- ritzy
- sensitive
- snazzy
- sophisticated
- spiffy
- suave
- sublime
- subtle
- swanky
- tasteful
- urbane
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- anticipation
- apprehending
- attention
- brainwork
- cerebration
- cogitation
- cognition
- concluding
- consideration
- considering
- contemplation
- deducing
- deduction
- deliberation
- deriving
- discerning
- excogitation
- heed
- hope
- ideation
- inducing
- inferring
- introspection
- intuition
- judging
- knowing
- logic
- meditation
- musing
- perceiving
- rationalization
- rationalizing
- realizing
- reasoning
- reflection
- regard
- scrutiny
- seeing
- speculation
- study
- theorization
- thinking
- understanding
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- contemplative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- excogitative
- farsighted
- grave
- in a brown study
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- serious
- sober
- speculative
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
- all there
- balanced
- both oars in water
- commonsensical
- compos mentis
- discerning
- fair-minded
- fit
- having all marbles
- healthy
- in one's right mind
- intelligent
- judicious
- levelheaded
- logical
- lucid
- moderate
- normal
- of sound mind
- oriented
- playing with full deck
- prudent
- rational
- right
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sage
- sapient
- self-possessed
- sensible
- sober
- sound
- steady
- together
- well
- wise
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