decent person
Example Sentences
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Racial discrimination has by no means been vanquished from the U.S., and no decent person wants to see race relations return to what they were 70 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
He was also a normal decent person, and 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
He said Charles had good taste, that I was the most decent person he knew, then he went to bed.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
