How to Use value judgment in a Sentence

value judgment

noun
  • I am not making value judgments, I am simply presenting the facts.
  • Nowadays lines are a fact of life, stripped of value judgment.
    Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 17 Feb. 2021
  • This is not a value judgment on the goodness or evil of SUVs.
    Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Many in the public health community have deemed the protests worth the risks; that's a value judgment.
    Faye Flam Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The people know that their value judgments are quite as good as those taught in any law school – maybe better.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Our decision to opt out of the term isn’t an effort to place a value judgment on the term, or even to make a big statement.
    Time, 22 June 2018
  • To say that the Russian president is modern, in fact, is not to make a value judgment at all.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • In a way, Top Ramen vs. wild turkey might fit into the same value judgment.
    Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Impulses are then urges to act based on value judgments.
    Massimo Pigliucci, Quartz, 17 June 2019
  • The former would be a value judgment; the latter is a business decision.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • This is one reason why scientists need to be crystal-clear that fitness is a statement of fact and not a value judgment.
    Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013
  • Difference in and of itself is not something that needs to come under some value judgment.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • And, if nothing else, that was a business decision and a value judgment that could have gone another way.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
  • Dear Upset: Nothing in my answer conveyed a value judgment about pot use.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2021
  • This is not a value judgment but a description of the industry’s business model.
    Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Neither version is wrong; one is just a bit more subjective and—to apply a value judgment—more generous than the other.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The ensuing backlash to the story centered on the Times’ unwillingness to make a value judgment on Trump’s behavior.
    Lucas Mann, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2018
  • And there should be no value judgment attached to taking, or not taking, antidepressants.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Behind each one of those criteria lies a value judgment, and behind that, an ideology.
    David Rosen, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Now, admittedly, the above piece was written from the prism of my worldview, with all its ideological pretensions and value judgments.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The concept of fault is a value judgment, not an objective assessment, and responsibility exists in the eye of the beholder.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 15 Feb. 2018
  • This isn't really about issuing condemnation or a making value judgment and lodging a charge of hypocrisy.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • But the manner in which this precept is interpreted is a value judgment, not some inexorable legal conclusion.
    Jay Willis, GQ, 7 Oct. 2017
  • That isn’t a value judgment, or even necessarily a criticism.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 17 July 2018
  • In shaping the economy, liberalism renders a value judgment that the economy should be more equal and just than market forces naturally produce.
    Cameron Smith, AL.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Nor would one expect any such value judgment from the CBO, which sedulously adheres to its duty of analysis, devoid of tendentious commentary.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
  • As Diane Coyle of Cambridge University has argued, the decision to exclude unpaid work may reflect the value judgments of the (mostly male) officials who first ran statistical agencies.
    The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • The study authors said that positions within it don’t confer any value judgment nor any specific clinical disposition.
    Kasra Zarei, STAT, 18 June 2022
  • Setting aside any moral evaluations or value judgments about what either president has done or could do in the future, this argument risks communicating more about its adherent than the president.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But inherent in any decision to memorialize someone is an inescapable value judgment — a judgment that whatever these figures did wrong was eclipsed by their contributions.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017

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