Advertisement

Advertisement

snap judgment



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

A hurried or impetuous decision or finding, as in George was known for making snap judgments on personnel questions; he rarely bothered to investigate further . This expression, which uses snap in the sense of “quick,” was first recorded in 1841.

Discover More

Example Sentences

This is the power Washington grants the guests on Snap Judgment.

Snap Judgment first aired in June of 2010 and is now getting ready for its sixth season.

It is part and parcel of the implicit politics of Snap Judgment, which folds the margins of American society into its center.

The most accurate results come from making a snap judgment about whether a question is True or False about you.

Such are some of the means by which this snap judgment was obtained.

How do you suppose it strikes me to have my wife take sides against me on snap judgment like that?

The world may not know but these snap-judgment profiteers, these get-rich-quick phenomena, always have to pay.

Gentlemen, it seems to me you have taken snap judgment on Mr. Jefferson and myself.

I can't give a snap judgment of a man that gets whole governments into a huff and knows how to lead a rabble a million strong.

Advertisement

Word of the Day

firkin

[fur-kin ]

Meaning and examples

Start each day with the Word of the Day in your inbox!

By clicking "Sign Up", you are accepting Dictionary.com Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement