Sentence examples for bad chap from inspiring English sources
The rogue financier played by Richard Gere in Arbitrage is a pretty bad chap.
These days he's more like the Gruffalo - scruffy, grumpy but, underneath it all (one fondly hopes), not a bad chap.
Charlie Dalton, a motherless boy, and son of a policeman, was a really bad chap, who stole and ran away from home on occasion.
Prince Edward, who went on to become King Edward VIII before abdicating, met Hitler during a visit to Germany in 1937 and allegedly once described him as "(not) such a bad chap".
Not to vaguely insult one of the most revered figures in Islam, while actually suggesting that he might not be such a bad chap after all – some kind of hyper-sensitive liberal who can take monstrous violence on the chin and move on with his eternal life.
The meeting went well: even in 1970 he told a friend that "I never thought Hitler was such a bad chap".
And though there are allusions to the dark side of imperial misrule and atrocity, which is Gott's main theme, Paxman seems more concerned to recall horrors committed on "us" by the "natives", and to reassure that most of those who ran the empire were not really such bad chaps after all.
If you think chapped lips are bad, chapped toes are much much worse.
(Wagstaff said, "Sorry, chaps").
"It's a good cop, bad cop," explained one chap, before his friend said something similar in rather more colourful language.
