At least in part because he liked right bastards.

She/he was ever so nice but a lot of the staff and nursing staff were right bastards to him.

He could be a right bastard when he had a mind to.

The sergeant had a reputation as a right bastard, both in the station and out on the cars.

I just knew him as a right bastard, if you'll forgive the technical term.

Me husband were a right bastard when he was alive.

"he's a right bastard to try to make you lose face like that."

If you looked at it realistically he had been a right bastard most of his life, long before her mother had died fifteen years ago.

"He's a right bastard when he wants to be."

First we got caught in a right bastard of a gale.