mend one's ways

VERB

go straight

Synonyms

WEAK

be honorable go legit turn over a new leaf walk the straight and narrow

Example Sentences

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Confucius said: “Not to mend one’s ways when one has erred is to err indeed.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2019