How to Use cad in a Sentence

cad

noun

• He is a cad, not a gentleman.
• Handsome and popular, his bad boyfriend would be a stock cad in any other movie.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• The limping boy, the wag with the bear, the cad with the under look, the Londoner, the libertine, the would-be liberator: take your pick.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024