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A rotten breakfast for an unpleasant fellow (3,3)

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I believe the answer is:

bad egg

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'fellow' is the definition.
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'a rotten breakfast for an unpleasant' is the wordplay.
'a rotten breakfast' becomes 'egg' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'an unpleasant' becomes 'bad'.
'egg' put after 'bad' is 'BAD EGG'.

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(Other definitions for bad egg that I've seen before include "Nasty person like addled ovoid" , "Was the cartoon curate presented with one" , "Untrustworthy (a potential stinker?)" , "Worthless person" , "Rotter - something rotten!" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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