redeeming feature

Idioms  

1. 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.”

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Example Sentences

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redeeming feature

“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

The news quickly trended on social media, with tributes saluting the "most famous tree in Australian education" as "majestic" and the university's "only redeeming feature".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2016

Wide grassy undulations, interspersed with extensive cultivation, rose unrelieved by a single tree or other redeeming feature, save the many European flowers that wantoned beneath the joyous sunshine on the far-stretching prairie.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

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