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: a bus conductor
2
: 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
Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
This was contrasted with the character of Bel-Ami himself, who was a complete cad and seduced his way into positions of power.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
He’s had a decent run in recent years playing a little slimy, stealing scenes as a cad in Fleishman Is in Trouble and drawing out pathos as a doubting son of a murderous family in the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
In part owing to this wild abundance, Bougainville and its neighboring isles have enticed a succession of fair-skinned cads, colonizers, and crazies.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Each story came out in recent days before reports surfaced that his own mother sent him a poison-pen email accusing him of being a serial abuser of women and something of a cad.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024
This was contrasted with the character of Bel-Ami himself, who was a complete cad and seduced his way into positions of power.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2024
He’s had a decent run in recent years playing a little slimy, stealing scenes as a cad in Fleishman Is in Trouble and drawing out pathos as a doubting son of a murderous family in the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2024
In part owing to this wild abundance, Bougainville and its neighboring isles have enticed a succession of fair-skinned cads, colonizers, and crazies.
—Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Cad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cad. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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