How to Use redeeming in a Sentence
redeeming
adjective- The job's only redeeming feature is the employee discount.
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What are still my redeeming qualities throughout all of this?
—Steve Baltin, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Isn’t the one redeeming factor of the Tudor era that men didn’t use the word toxic?
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 July 2024
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Both films grind away for almost two and a half hours, stripped of the pop and the rush that are, or ought to be, the redeeming virtue of the genre.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
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These giants eat mostly other snakes, which is a redeeming feature for humans.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
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That has a certain redeeming quality, thinking, ‘This is hard, and these are the risks.
—Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
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Debates were, in my opinion, charades, cheap shows and without much redeeming substance.
—Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
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The battery on the phone, thankfully, is a redeeming quality.
—Christian De Looper, BGR, 28 July 2021
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And most of the time, probably without the redeeming quality of rainbows.
—Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
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None of her victims has a redeeming quality or generates empathy for their demise.
—Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2022
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White characters are mostly buffoons with no redeeming value.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
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His one partially redeeming act comes in giving his son Albie money in return for having Albie put in a good word with his mum.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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There are essentially no redeeming features to its design — its hand-like head looks goofy, its arms look fake, and its colors are largely unappealing.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
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The Elite has always been a rather strange-looking creation, although its occasional seating for four is something of a redeeming virtue.
—Mike Knepper, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
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Absolutely no redeeming characteristics except for maybe his desire to be a good parent.
—Cat Zhang, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
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Kmart’s vast quantities of real estate once considered a possible redeeming quality for its way forward made the vacancies all the more painful to behold.
—Grace L. Williams, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
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Our Caprice's physical coordination was its most valuable and redeeming quality.
—Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 5 May 2023
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In the most redeeming moment of the night, and possibly the franchise’s recent history, we are treated to a scene of Jasmine and Alexis hanging out playfully in the hot tub.
—Katy Primosch, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2017
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Considering the messages shared are rooted in biblical principles of love, forgiveness and empathy, where else will such redeeming traits of living and belonging be instilled?
—Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021
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There are almost no redeeming qualities about The Rings Of Power’s second season outside of a few strong performances from actors who frankly deserve much better scripts.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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Twitter’s most redeeming qualities are its democratic possibilities.
—Sarah Jones, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
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To call politics war cheapens the sacrifices made by actual soldiers and turns our political opponents from good people (who have good reasons for wanting different policies) to enemies (who have no redeeming qualities and must be destroyed).
—Jennifer Mercieca, TIME, 15 July 2024
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