BAD SORT, A Definition & Meaning

bad sort, a

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An unpleasant, mean person, as in We cautioned Bill about his friend, who was clearly a bad sort . The antonym is a good sort , a pleasant, kind person, as in She's a good sort, always helping her neighbors . The latter is stronger than not a bad sort , as in He seems ill-tempered now and then, but he's not a bad sort . All three terms use a sort in the sense of “kind of person.” [Second half of 1800s]

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It had been conceded at the cottage as an understood thing that Rachel was to have this man as her lover; but what, if after all, the man didn't mean to be a lover in the proper sense; and what, if so meaning, he should still turn out to be a lover of a bad sort,—a worldly, good-for-nothing, rakish lover?

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Cecilia isn't a bad sort—a shocking snob, as all of us are who are not the real thing and want to be—like your own common pushers over here.

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