redeeming quality

Example Sentences

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As evil as he appears to be, he also appears to many across the world as an aging grifter whose only redeeming quality is his single-minded resolve.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2025

“There was a great sense of serving the country. That has a certain redeeming quality, thinking, ‘This is hard, and these are the risks.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2022

The song's most redeeming quality is that the proceeds go to housing and homeless charity Shelter.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2021

But I think the redeeming quality was in people who were trying to build a different world, and set out in search of it.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2021

Besides, I’m not offering food, and my ability to provide scraps has always been my main redeeming quality to him.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins