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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a bad fellow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is considered untrustworthy, immoral, or unpleasant in character.
Example: "Despite his charming demeanor, many people in the town regarded him as a bad fellow."
Alternatives: "a wicked person" or "a rogue individual."
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But he's not a bad fellow.
Dewey wasn't a bad fellow.
DeSapio, who eventually did time for bribery, wasn't really such a bad fellow.
His one Israeli, a limousine driver in New York, is something of a lout (though not necessarily a bad fellow).
Looking at Constantin's deliriously happy face, I began to realise that Father Christmas was not such a bad fellow after all.
He wasn't a bad fellow but he couldn't get off to a decent start, we weren't doing well and I probably wasn't in a position mentally to give him the help he needed.
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Richard Ford responded to a bad review from a fellow writer by sending her one of her own books with a bullet-hole shot through it.
Woody, is a bad-tempered old fellow living in retirement in Billings, Montana.
"The possibility of a hard Brexit is weakened or diminished because Theresa May was campaigning for a very tough negotiating line, which also said that no deal was better than a bad deal," Zsolt Darvas, senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, told VICE News.
And, incredulous Democrats say, the administration made a bad bargain even as it left fellow Democrats out of the loop.
At no stage, nor in any article, did Austin have a bad word to say about his fellow Lions players.
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