redeeming quality

Example Sentences

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As evil as he appears to be, he also appears to many across the world as an aging grifter whose only redeeming quality is his single-minded resolve.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2025

“There was a great sense of serving the country. That has a certain redeeming quality, thinking, ‘This is hard, and these are the risks.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2022

The song's most redeeming quality is that the proceeds go to housing and homeless charity Shelter.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2021

“I think all those guys have a redeeming quality that’s going to make them special. It’s going to be an unbelievable competition, and I’m excited to see those guys grow.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2019

Arguing for any redeeming quality in the people who had committed it was a kind of rank treason.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor