good person

Example Sentences

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I want you to think I’m smart, knowledgeable and a good person.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Many of her intrusive thoughts revolve around an obsession with needing to be a good person which she believes is linked to her relationship with attending church growing up.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Van Der Beek communicates an unmistakable feeling that there is a good person somewhere inside his character, dying to break free of the tortured fate his monstrous doppelganger has created for him.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

“I was not a good person, but I was not involved with anything like that,” he told me.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

It is a dachshund, so she was probably a good person because she liked dogs.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon