redeeming feature
Example Sentences
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They offered not one redeeming feature as they slumped again, the visiting fans suffering as they made their way home from a freezing west London night.
From BBC
“I couldn’t find a single redeeming feature about this utterly loathsome figure.”
From Los Angeles Times
“I stumbled and hemmed and hawed and carried on and figured that the only redeeming feature of the whole thing was my mother in New York couldn’t see me make a fool of myself. But it was pretty bad. Anyway I survived the experience.”
From Washington Post
If “Intrusion” has one redeeming feature, it’s Marshall-Green, whose performance as the husband with a dark secret has a crackling, tightly controlled intensity far more nuanced and persuasive than anything else in the film.
From New York Times
Its only redeeming feature is that the words are so tiny I can’t read them.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.