good guy

noun

: a morally correct person or character : a hero

It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this movie.

Examples of good guy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web What matters is declaring a good guy and a bad guy, where both of these roles are obvious and unchanging. —

Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2024 Things get particularly meta during one showdown in a saloon, in which our hero is pitted against … another good guy. —

Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024 Wayne always said that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun. —

Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024 Yet Cook, the Duke economist, says this good guy/bad guy dichotomy is a false and dangerous one. —

Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017 And there was a real good guy by the name of Daniel Powell who was the showrunner on, with Jessi Klein. —

Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024 There are archetypal good guy and bad boy figures who have been part of her life, whom everyone will transpose onto this material. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024 But Monkey Man is also, more than anything, proof of Patel’s commitment to moving beyond being the gentle, irreproachable good guy. —

Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024 One good guy with a gun could have stopped the evil criminals who opened fire on the crowd immediately. —

Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024

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