decent person

Example Sentences

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“The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt,” Orwell wrote, “is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

I don’t like many of her politics, but I do trust that she is a principled and decent person.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2025

If you were a decent person, you go home and you’re scolding yourself, but it’s been an eye-opening, weird experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

"It was considered that the ordinary decent person would know that the conduct was dishonest," it added.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

But even if you were an unknown, just being a decent person is a job these days.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady