How to Use cad in a Sentence

cad

noun
  • He is a cad, not a gentleman.
  • The predator has been softened into a mere cad, but that’s part of the plan.
    Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 23 June 2017
  • Robin agrees, and these cads seem to be earning their paycheck for once.
    Robbie Daw, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2020
  • There are so many more kings and cads, great men and flawed leaders left for Neeson to play.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Only the most miserable cad would not wish good things to come to Thai and Danielle Dang.
    Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Scovel, too, is just right, a cad who is a reckless little boy.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • But the Franklin that emerges here is often bullheaded and foolish—even a cad.
    Sam Kean, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • Herbert had a reputation as a patron of the arts and was something of a cad.
    V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Is there any singer in the world better at playing the heartbroken cad than blackbear?
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 1 June 2018
  • His cad persona only exists within the pages of his book!
    Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The men in these women’s lives are, thankfully, neither boors nor cads.
    Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Seconds before being struck by the floats of Fire and Ice, the clueless cad was yanked back into the crowd by his lovely date.
    al, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Reid Scott has made something of an art out of portraying charming cads.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 June 2019
  • Clare learns to love his chaos while renovating him into a nicer cad.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2022
  • Roxy’s mother and stepfather fly to Paris to plead with Roxy to divorce the cad and return to Santa Barbara.
    WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • A friend of mine is marrying a cad who is only after her money.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 30 May 2017
  • Eva might meet the perfect guy (Jason Lewis), but can't break the spell of her attraction to cads, or embrace her 40-something body as-is.
    Amy Nicholson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Though Lance has fun playing a bounder and cad of the first order, the script doesn’t particularly need him.
    Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
  • But most men, including cads such as Kevin, still expect to marry.
    Mark Regnerus, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • This is a cad’s special pleading, but most cads don’t have Roth’s mountains of evidence.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Played by anyone else, Felix would be a detestable, sexist cad.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2020
  • What sort of cad cheats on Emma Thompson? Alan Rickman’s glasses.
    Connie Ogle, miamiherald, 23 Dec. 2014
  • What’s curious is that Mr. Hiddleston, so good at bad boys, isn’t playing Jerry, the more glamorous role: the cad, the pursuer, the best man who goes after the bride.
    New York Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • For folks who know Menzies from, say, The Crown or as a cad on Outlander, this breezy yet befuddled and neurotic turn will be eye-opening.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
  • The white Detroit Pistons center Bill Laimbeer was a graceless cad in defeat.
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
  • The typical Speedy plot casts him as a thief and a cad, and his fellow Mexican mice as lazy, drunk and happily living amongst trash.
    Gustavo Arellano, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • April is a starry-eyed girl from Colorado who just wants to meet a nice boy but instead falls in with a handsome upper-crust cad who works at Merrill Lynch.
    Michele Moses, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
  • But thanks to Freeman Hartley’s direction, Rock avoids becoming the cad who inspired so many blues songs.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Hanks, meanwhile is having a ball as Bradlee, a charming and crass cad with a mission and an army of capable reporters trying to get the story.
    Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Pearce makes the writer just chummy enough to like with a few possible cad-like tendencies thrown in to keep it interesting.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2021

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