Sentence examples for Decent chaps from inspiring English sources

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Decent chaps have to stick together and all that.

Underneath the mum-worrying thuggery and the bum-kneading ribaldry, Towers Of London are evidently decent chaps.

Doubtless many of the Normans who invaded England in 1066 were decent chaps and they arguably made it a more efficient state, but the English themselves still referred for centuries to the "Norman yoke".

And yet there's something gloomily philistine about it, something that leaves you with a surprising pang for the days when Tory patricians were allowed to be decent chaps without quite such demands on their electoral palatability.

At home, the show has always played like a posh pantomime – a fantasy vision of a Britain that never really existed, where everyone from kitchen maid to second footman is happy with their lot because the people at the top are such bally decent chaps.

As some liberals have argued, it seems implausible to think that consumption of pornography, on a single or even repeated occasions, will cause otherwise "normal, decent chaps" with no propensity to rape suddenly "to metamorphose into rapists".

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What a decent chap Lord Roy Hattersleyey is.

Plus Sir Roger is such a thoroughly decent chap.

He stopped in at Gus Ewald's saloo Gus was a decent chap.

I spoke to him the other for five minutes and he seemed like a decent chap.

Even Coldplay's Chris Martin, that other famously decent chap of pop, has manhandled a few photographers.

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