The phrase "a basically nice guy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is generally kind or pleasant, but may have some flaws or complexities in their character.
Example: "Despite his occasional grumpiness, he's a basically nice guy who always helps others in need."
Alternatives: "a fundamentally good person" or "an overall decent individual."
Well, I think he is a basically nice guy who has fallen into a trap: the trap of imprecatory denial.
He matches Alex's description of Mitchell as a basically nice guy who is "damaged goods enough to keep things interesting".
"He's a combination of libertarian, fiscal conservative, and a basically nice guy who doesn't want to do anything he thinks is wrong," Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist, told me.
But schmoozing with a couple of cool dudes who make you feel welcome -- not because you paid more but because they're basically nice guys?
And that I'm basically a nice guy".
"I know Steve personally, from online use, and he's basically a nice guy," Fitzgerald said.
Despite modern scholarship's zeal to tear down saints from their pedestals, Liszt has retained his halo as basically a nice guy.
Tim wants a big promotion; he wants to marry his girlfriend, Julie Stephanie Szostakk); and he wants, most elusively, to square his competitive instincts with the conviction that he is basically a nice guy.
"I'm basically a nice guy who has a terrible problem with anxiety," the patient said resentfully.
Since he's lost for much of the film, we really don't get to know him; just as well since he's basically just a nice guy in a bad spot.
Now we're going to watch sad, old, Bob Bennett of Utah, who lost out in Utah's nomination process, whose only crime was basically being a nice guy, who wanted to do some pro-active things on health care and whatnot, who really never surrendered any of his conservative principles, as near as I can tell, but got swept up in a wave of Tea Party eliminationism.
