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

Gormley added that he would like to be remembered as a "decent person who helped people out as much as I could".

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

“I think that any decent person knows the difference between what’s right and what’s wrong. We don’t live in a dictatorship,” the registered Democrat said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

Indeed, for Van, his old basketball coach, Reggie stood out because he was, in addition to being a strong guard with the will to rebound, a decidedly decent person.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel