good people

noun

US, informal + old-fashioned

: an honest, helpful, or morally good person

I like him; he's good people.

Examples of good people in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In this telling, public tragedies convey a moral struggle in which good people are brought low by a bad society. —

Thomas D. Beamish, The Conversation, 14 June 2024 The same bad people doing bad things to good people. —

Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024 The owners are good people and just opened a pretty excellent wine bar next door, Musette. —

Annie Armstrong, New York Times, 3 June 2024 Car salesman and lawyers are generally good people, mind you. —

Patrick Wallis, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024 Looking ahead, the many good people of our county will strive to ensure that our complete history, good and bad, remains available to students and the public. —

Sarah Kohrs and Neil Thorne, TIME, 21 May 2024 There are good people on both sides of this question. —

Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2024 My Dad and Theresa are kind, good people that made this decision for them, no one else. —

Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2024 The secret to the service is good people bringing like minds with them, says Stein. —

Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024

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