good guy

Example Sentences

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“We’re the good guys, trying to help out everybody as much as we can.”

From Los Angeles Times

“There is a good guy and a bad guy that’s very clear and very binary,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

Of course, some of the best war movies contain far murkier layers, with the Americans or the allies or the Brits questioning whether they are in fact the good guys after all.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a town — and a time — of selfishness and self-serving, Reiner was one of the good guys, always fighting, both through his films and his politics, to make the world kinder and closer.

From Los Angeles Times

"He has just always had something about him that makes him a star," she says, adding that for most of his career, he's "always maintained a good guy persona".

From BBC