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good guy
[ good gahy ]
noun
- a moral or noble person; a hero or someone perceived as one:
The film's twist is that the monster turns out to be the good guy.
- any person who is regarded as habitually prone to doing good things or as being morally correct:
There are times in this job where we don't feel like the good guys.
Word History and Origins
Origin of good guy1
Example Sentences
That Russia is really the good guy in all of this?
"My feeling is that if Trump has trusted him as much as he has, than he must be a pretty good guy with the right ideas and the right goals."
Maybe this would all be too depressing to bear if we didn’t know that the good guys eventually triumph.
To have both parties centering themselves so firmly in this dispute doesn't achieve what either seems to want — to look like the good guy here, the one who is telling the truth.
The role extends Bacon’s extensive gallery of playing good guys that aren’t really all that good.
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