not a bad sort
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Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/REUTERS So Harbinger's not a bad sort, then.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2010
But for readers who had enough sense to come in out of the reality, it was not a bad sort of beginning.
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But his parents are not a bad sort, merely ignorant, stubborn, anxious, self-righteous and poor.
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He’s not a bad sort of fellow though; not at all a bad sort of fellow at bottom.”
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
He's not a bad sort when you know him.
From Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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