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: a bus conductor
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: a man who acts with deliberate disregard for another's feelings or rights
a selfish cad
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computer-aided design
Synonyms
Noun
- bastard
- beast
- bleeder [British]
- blighter [chiefly British]
- boor
- bounder
- bugger
- buzzard
- chuff
- churl
- clown
- creep
- cretin
- crud [slang]
- crumb [slang]
- cur
- dirtbag [slang]
- dog
- fink
- heel
- hound
- jerk
- joker
- louse
- lout
- pill
- rat
- rat fink
- reptile
- rotter
- schmuck [slang]
- scum
- scumbag [slang]
- scuzzball [slang]
- skunk
- sleaze
- sleazebag [slang]
- sleazeball [slang]
- slime
- slimeball [slang]
- slob
- snake
- so-and-so
- sod [chiefly British]
- stinkard
- stinker
- swine
- toad
- varmint
- vermin
Examples of cad in a Sentence
Noun
He is a cad, not a gentleman.
he's the type of cad who readily bad-mouths every girl who's ever dumped him
Recent Examples on the Web
Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 17 June 2024
Capable and probably gifted as a reporter, sure, but very much a cad — a white Japanophile unleashed.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
For instance, Eliza Wharton, The Coquette’s protagonist, died giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child after eschewing a pious suitor in favor of an attractive cad.
—TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
The phrase conjures many things, not least the iconic black and white images of vintage convertible cars, shiny black sunglasses, glamorous starlets and hustling cads named Marcello — all unforgettably captured in Federico Fellini's iconic Italian film evoking a special time and place.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
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Noun
Notting Hill Before Hugh Grant began leaning into his evil side in the early aughts by playing narcissistic cads in movies like Bridget Jones’s Diary and About a Boy, the ’90s (and screenwriter Richard Curtis) had already established him as one of the rom-com machine’s most charming leading men.
—Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 17 June 2024
Capable and probably gifted as a reporter, sure, but very much a cad — a white Japanophile unleashed.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
For instance, Eliza Wharton, The Coquette’s protagonist, died giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child after eschewing a pious suitor in favor of an attractive cad.
—TIME, 22 Apr. 2024
The phrase conjures many things, not least the iconic black and white images of vintage convertible cars, shiny black sunglasses, glamorous starlets and hustling cads named Marcello — all unforgettably captured in Federico Fellini's iconic Italian film evoking a special time and place.
—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
See all Example Sentences for cad
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“Cad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cad. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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