good people

noun

US, informal + old-fashioned
: an honest, helpful, or morally good person
I like him; he's good people.

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Douthat said Trump had said that some immigrants without legal status were good people. — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026 You are not educated to understand what your endorsement means to so many life long fans and good people that are fighting antisemitism and hatred for thousands of years. — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026 And there are like hundreds of 1,000s of really good people who work for our government who aren’t toppling it. — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 Or good people have other reasons for finding that bad thing to be tolerable. — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for good people

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“Good people.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/good%20people. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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