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Discover LudwigThe term "reasonable man" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a hypothetical person used in legal and narrative contexts as a point of comparison for a specified action or behavior. For example, "A reasonable man would not have acted so irresponsibly."
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Whereas the law looks for what the "reasonable man" would do, reasonableness does not govern our national agenda.
I'm a reasonable man".
I mean, he's a pretty reasonable man.
"He was a reasonable man in an unreasonable time".
But the landlord is a reasonable man, he assured me.
See Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, for all other definitions of "Ordinarily Reasonable Man".
Kurtzer is, by the accounts of those who know him, an eminently reasonable man.
"I think a reasonable man wouldn't object to this," he said.
She found a job at a pizza place, where she met a reasonable man.
"I'm a reasonable man," said Branko Petrovic, 61, a retired police officer.
This influential character, at once normal and ideal, is known as "the reasonable man".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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