redeeming feature

Idioms and Phrases

A good quality or aspect that makes up for other drawbacks, as in The house isn't very attractive, but the garden is the redeeming feature . This idiom, first recorded in 1827, uses redeem in the sense of “compensate.”

Example Sentences

His love for his mother is the redeeming feature in his character.

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Besides, his fidelity to Corinne is a redeeming feature, perhaps the only redeeming feature of his character.

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These difficulties of Philips were the first redeeming feature in the situation.

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There is only one redeeming feature in the right honorable gentleman's policy, and that is its colossal and monumental failure.

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The only redeeming feature about the whole orgie was the absence of quarrelling.

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