Some passages sort of dilute his 'bad' behaviour.
CH 31;
It taught him that he had been scarcely more misled by Thorpe’s first boast of the family wealth than by his subsequent malicious overthrow of it;

'Taught him' gives me the sense of his having learnt something like many JA characters do.

Of course there was no cure for his greediness - that continued unabated.

Later in the same chapter, JA herself, in a way, tells us that he was not 'injuriously bad' like the 'gothic' villains.

....and professing myself moreover convinced that the general’s unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment...