give sb the benefit of the doubt
to believe something good about someone, rather than something bad, when you have the possibility of doing either:
I didn't know whether his story was true or not, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Believing
- article of faith
- ascribe sth to sb
- belief
- believe
- believe in sth
- credit
- evidently
- feel
- feel it in your bones idiom
- gospel
- incline to/towards sth
- kid
- seeing is believing idiom
- self-delusion
- stock
- swear by sth
- take sb's word for it idiom
- take sth as read idiom
- under
- word
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