redeeming feature
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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 • Oct. 25, 2025
“I couldn’t find a single redeeming feature about this utterly loathsome figure.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2023
Its only redeeming feature is that the words are so tiny I can’t read them.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2020
But the store has one great redeeming feature: It does not charge for postage, which is considerable across the ocean.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2018
Because he did and felt that he tried to crush it, was his redeeming feature in this respect.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar
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