The phrase "a bad sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is considered to be of poor character or morally questionable.
Example: "Despite his charming demeanor, many people in the town believed he was a bad sort."
Alternatives: "a bad person" or "a questionable character".
His opposite number is the cop, Frank Taylor, who is neither a bad sort nor particularly a good sort.
"My first husband wasn't a bad sort," she said, but, amid the poverty of rural China, there was little to their relationship beyond day-to-day survival.
"He didn't seem a bad sort," my father said after he'd gone, while my mother spoke well of his good manners.
Relegated to Handmaid status, she is assigned to the home of a military Commander (Robert Duvall), who seems not a bad sort despite his masculine superiority, and his insinuating Wife (Faye Dunaway), who clearly rules the roost.
It's not much on paper: a family goes on holiday, and its late-teenage daughters fall in love, one with a good'un – Patrick Swayze on career-defining form – and one with a bad sort.
But the problem with valuing public sector work and political work so highly is it entrenches a bad sort of elitism in the system: analysis by The Times this week found nearly half the recipients of high honours (knighthood and above) were privately educated.
There is no inner man there, only the hippo with its shit-flinging tail, and a very bad sort of hippo at that.
Declines in appraisal values set records in November, and real estate firms are reporting an element of "hysteria," of the bad sort, in recent transactions.
Here, there's a sense among Republicans that all of these new voting laws are opening up the door to fraud and that it's a bad thing sort of.
I didn't particularly like the forced and extremely corny "you've been a bad boy" sort of language.
Indeed loneliness – the bad sort – is indistinguishable from mild depression.
