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Recent Examples of caddish
Gulager’s performance in The Killers convinced Peter Bogdanovich to cast him as Abilene, the caddish oil-field foreman who made love to Ellen Burstyn’s character and seduced Cybill Shepherd’s Jacy Farrow in a deserted pool hall, in The Last Picture Show (1971).
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
The movie centers on an aspiring filmmaker played by Winona Ryder who is pursued by a responsible corporate striver (Ben Stiller, the film’s director) and a caddish poet who hates the right things (Ethan Hawke).
—New York Times, 14 July 2022
Kya Clark, the protagonist, is, like Delia, a naturalist and loner, who, for reasons too involved to explain here (however: spoiler alert), commits what is described as a righteously motivated murder of a caddish local bigshot, Chase Andrews.
—Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2022
Colombian crooner Maluma, who plays Kat’s caddish fiance, Sarah Silverman and Michelle Buteau round out the cast.
—Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
Did Aretha’s caddish first husband and manager, Ted White (played here by a terrific Marlon Wayans), really come storming out of the bedroom, grumbling about the lateness of the hour?
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
Enter Laura’s caddish Playboy father, Felix (Bill Murray), who reconnects with his daughter by taking her on an adventure to determine whether Dean is being unfaithful.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2020
Catherine turns the tables on her caddish suitor and bars him from her life.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
Caroline and her husband Peregrine, Earl of Brockenhurst (Tom Wilkinson), fear for the legacy of their household if Peregrine's gambler brother (James Fleet) and caddish nephew (Adam James) get hold of their fortune after the Earl passes.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
The movie centers on an aspiring filmmaker played by Winona Ryder who is pursued by a responsible corporate striver (Ben Stiller, the film’s director) and a caddish poet who hates the right things (Ethan Hawke).
—New York Times, 14 July 2022
Kya Clark, the protagonist, is, like Delia, a naturalist and loner, who, for reasons too involved to explain here (however: spoiler alert), commits what is described as a righteously motivated murder of a caddish local bigshot, Chase Andrews.
—Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2022
Colombian crooner Maluma, who plays Kat’s caddish fiance, Sarah Silverman and Michelle Buteau round out the cast.
—Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
Did Aretha’s caddish first husband and manager, Ted White (played here by a terrific Marlon Wayans), really come storming out of the bedroom, grumbling about the lateness of the hour?
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
Enter Laura’s caddish Playboy father, Felix (Bill Murray), who reconnects with his daughter by taking her on an adventure to determine whether Dean is being unfaithful.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2020
Catherine turns the tables on her caddish suitor and bars him from her life.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
Caroline and her husband Peregrine, Earl of Brockenhurst (Tom Wilkinson), fear for the legacy of their household if Peregrine's gambler brother (James Fleet) and caddish nephew (Adam James) get hold of their fortune after the Earl passes.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caddish
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Naturally, the media hyped the event as Bart versus Bill, a showdown between one show’s wholesome family values and the other’s brash, boorish cynicism — the aspirational ’80s facing off against the anarchic ’90s.Darryn King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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The Globes have remade themselves over the past few years, going from a model of old-school corruption (bribery, being boorish around celebrities) to a more accountable organization whose corruption now has a friendly modern face.Jen Chaney, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Every great festival lineup needs an eccentric art-pop groundbreaker and some loutish guys who write anthems.Al Shipley, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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Homer wasn’t fooling around: those who aid the beggar are rewarded, those who mistreat him—the loutish suitors who have long besieged Penelope—are killed.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
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Some audiences saw this as a warning, linking the societal shifts and movements of people aligned with the left as dangerous and uncouth.Jude Reid, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024
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These people could not possibly be bothered to acknowledge anything as uncouth as Christmas.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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The British series, which debuted in 2022, follows Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s churlish and disheveled Jackson Lamb as the leader of a team of disgraced and disowned MI5 agents scrappily and shabbily getting the job done.Trey Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024
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Asked about these comments, and responding to them, Tiger himself was churlish.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 July 2024
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As vice-president, Kamala Harris was generally regarded as unimpressive and slightly clownish, with her banal repetitions and too-frequent outbursts of too-exuberant laughter.Avi Nelson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024
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Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine was far more graphic and vulgar than previous Marvel Studios projects — but one of its especially dirty lines didn't make the cut.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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With Election Day on the horizon, Elon Musk is leaning into violent and vulgar rhetoric.Bruna Horvath, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The officers weren't rude, angry, or insolent — as required of a battery conviction — and used their training and legal authority to do their jobs.Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
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Her subversive and dominating personality, and sometimes insolent rhetoric in her active X presence set her apart from the likes of other female AI chatbots, such as Siri whose aim is to assist and serve.Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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More specifically, the impudent Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time and turns Link into a Deku Scrub, those antagonistic tree cannons first introduced in Ocarina.Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
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In short, Moscow sees Montenegro as both strategically valuable and an impudent upstart that has thumbed its nose at the Russian bear while genuflecting before NATO and Washington.Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2016
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“Caddish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caddish. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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