nice guy

nice guy

A teenaged or adult male who is dependably friendly and compassionate, to the point of being seen as too boring, unchallenging, or uninspiring to be romantically involved with. I'm tired of just being the nice guy that no girl wants to date. I want to be seen as edgy, dangerous even—someone no girl can resist!
See also: guy, nice
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • regular fixture
  • like clockwork
  • burg
  • a one-horse town
  • one-horse town
  • go like clockwork
  • go/run like clockwork
  • extreme
  • boring in the extreme
References in periodicals archive
However, with years of reading bad-boys-will-break-your-heart literature, you would have thought women would be falling over for nice guys by now.
WICKETKEEPER-BATSMAN Jos Buttler has denied that England's World Cup problems are down to a case of nice guys finishing last.
The "Be a nice guy" or BANG campaign aims to help reduce incidents of anti social behaviour over the Halloween and Bonfire Night period.
"But all the press said was: 'Ah, you're still such a nice guy'.
I suspect one of the reasons for this is Carl was such a nice guy, he couldn't collect his money from his customers.
But even nice guys find things difficult when they step out of the spotlight.
"We don't need a meeting of Really Nice Guys; we need a gathering of Really Dangerous Men....
One nice guy who turned him down at the Evening Star did tell Al that he knew a guy who was planning to launch a weekly newsletter aimed at the new television industry and might be hiring.
He seems to be a nice guy, but his camera intrudes into a lot of places because of the twins."
Alphonse de Valk's suggestion that perhaps more governance and less nice guy posturing is needed from our Canadian Bishops to ensure a more united Catholic Church.
Whenever Kevin Thatcher (yet another really nice guy) and Rick used to come down to Los Angeles they would stay at my parent's house and my mother would always make them and all my other friends a bunch of cheeseburgers.
He was a scholar, a unique individual and a really nice guy," says Dave Foulkes, former partner with Clark, Wong, Foulkes & Barbieri.
One such case I'll call simply "Nice Guy, No Action," or N.G.
This work is clearly guided by the spirit of fair play; Durant is a genuine "nice guy," as everyone who knows him will attest.
"I remember going home that night and telling my husband what a great guy Joel was, just a genuinely nice guy. I will always miss his smile!"