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noun kadkæd dated, informal A man who behaves dishonourably, especially towards a woman. 〈旧或幽默〉行为不端的男人（尤指对待妇女方面） her adulterous cad of a husband 她那与人通奸的无耻丈夫。 Example sentencesExamples - Britain's biggest cads, rogues and evil-doers from the past 1,000 years have been given special recognition by historians.
- I don't respect all who oppose it since a great many of them seem like ninnies or cads.
- He knew, deeply, that in keeping his true identity from her, he had been a cad and a scoundrel, but he had been so eager for her to see him in a positive light.
- What turns too many of them into uncouth cads on court?
- It is true, however, that relationships between cads and starry-eyed romantics are rarely what they seem.
- In short, Diplomacy is not a nice game; to win, it is necessary to behave like a complete cad.
- But the possibility of crossing that line does not mean that alcohol is nothing but a trick employed by cads.
- He, true to form, behaves like a cad and leaves her for the gambling tables and his deserved fate.
- My post yesterday about bounders and cads provoked a torrent of commentary and email, so I thought I'd share it with everyone.
- From the novels she appears to be the sort of woman who appreciates gentlemanly behaviour, but then she also seems to like cads.
- Often times these men received the titles of cads and rakes and the like.
- But when asked who appealed to them most for short-term affairs, the women turned to the dark heroes - the handsome, passionate and daring cads.
- Far from being the lads or cads as often perceived by society, young and teenage fathers are fighting to support their partners during pregnancy and after birth - but are receiving little or no support from the health services.
- He was a cad and a bounder, but not without charm.
- Despite some of the despicable things she's done, we hope she'll find a little transcendence in the world of cads, cowards and creeps that surround her.
- In the afternoon I went to the baths but found the water dirty and full of the most dreadful greasy-haired cads.
- For example, I think stable means unchanging or changing slowly, and decent means not a cad or a bounder.
- He looked like a schoolboy socialist's dream - the leader of the left whose selfless devotion to democracy exposed his enemies as unprincipled cads.
- We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
- Though a nice boy, he acts like a cad when he next meets her.
Synonyms scoundrel, rogue, rascal, good-for-nothing, reprobate, unprincipled person
Derivativesadjective ˈkadɪʃˈkædɪʃ dated, informal (of a man or his behaviour) dishonourable, especially towards a woman. 〈旧或幽默〉行为不端的男人（尤指对待妇女方面） an impoverished charmer with caddish tendencies Example sentencesExamples - But his books are a celebration of caddish behaviour which, when you think about it, isn't much different from the laddish variety.
- His caddish mission is to steal her petticoat as a ‘souvenir’ to present to her wealthy fiancé to prove her unfaithfulness.
- I remember feeling rather caddish: an 18-year-old seducer, in the Caribbean with the beautiful daughter of a terrifying steel magnate at 3 o'clock in the morning.
adverb dated, informal When he caddishly refuses, Isabelle accuses him of confusing life with cinema and commits suicide. Example sentencesExamples - His leading characters are invariably womanisers, middle-class, caddishly intelligent and orphans.
- He fell in and out of love with metronomic frequency, caddishly abandoning each lover for the next.
noun dated, informal A cad himself, he is quick to detect caddishness in others. Example sentencesExamples - To compound this apparent caddishness, Howard is also a fellow traveler and a boorish personality.
- For the narrator, the ‘crime’ is caddishness, not coition - a failing of etiquette rather than morality.
OriginLate 18th century (denoting a passenger picked up by the driver of a horse-drawn coach for personal profit): abbreviation of caddie or cadet. This is a dated term to describe a man who behaves dishonourably towards a woman, and appears to have arisen at the universities as a colloquial insult for a ‘man of low, vulgar manners’. It may have originated at Oxford in a contemptuous application to townsmen in the ‘town-and-gown’ rivalry. Cad, however, once referred to any passenger picked up by the driver of a horse-drawn coach for his personal profit. It is an abbreviation of Scottish caddie or its more standard form cadet. This term for a younger son comes from French Gascon dialect capdet, ‘little head’ hence ‘junior’ from Latin caput ‘head’.
Rhymesad, add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, Chad, clad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad nounkadkæd dated, informal A man who behaves dishonorably, especially toward a woman. 〈旧或幽默〉行为不端的男人（尤指对待妇女方面） her adulterous cad of a husband 她那与人通奸的无耻丈夫。 Example sentencesExamples - But the possibility of crossing that line does not mean that alcohol is nothing but a trick employed by cads.
- In short, Diplomacy is not a nice game; to win, it is necessary to behave like a complete cad.
- Despite some of the despicable things she's done, we hope she'll find a little transcendence in the world of cads, cowards and creeps that surround her.
- He, true to form, behaves like a cad and leaves her for the gambling tables and his deserved fate.
- He knew, deeply, that in keeping his true identity from her, he had been a cad and a scoundrel, but he had been so eager for her to see him in a positive light.
- But when asked who appealed to them most for short-term affairs, the women turned to the dark heroes - the handsome, passionate and daring cads.
- He looked like a schoolboy socialist's dream - the leader of the left whose selfless devotion to democracy exposed his enemies as unprincipled cads.
- From the novels she appears to be the sort of woman who appreciates gentlemanly behaviour, but then she also seems to like cads.
- We're beggars and blighters and ne'er-do-well cads.
- In the afternoon I went to the baths but found the water dirty and full of the most dreadful greasy-haired cads.
- What turns too many of them into uncouth cads on court?
- I don't respect all who oppose it since a great many of them seem like ninnies or cads.
- He was a cad and a bounder, but not without charm.
- Often times these men received the titles of cads and rakes and the like.
- Far from being the lads or cads as often perceived by society, young and teenage fathers are fighting to support their partners during pregnancy and after birth - but are receiving little or no support from the health services.
- For example, I think stable means unchanging or changing slowly, and decent means not a cad or a bounder.
- It is true, however, that relationships between cads and starry-eyed romantics are rarely what they seem.
- My post yesterday about bounders and cads provoked a torrent of commentary and email, so I thought I'd share it with everyone.
- Britain's biggest cads, rogues and evil-doers from the past 1,000 years have been given special recognition by historians.
- Though a nice boy, he acts like a cad when he next meets her.
Synonyms scoundrel, rogue, rascal, good-for-nothing, reprobate, unprincipled person
OriginLate 18th century (denoting a passenger picked up by the driver of a horse-drawn coach for personal profit): abbreviation of caddie or cadet. |