as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
he's the type of cad who readily bad-mouths every woman who's ever dumped him
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Recent Examples of cad
At least her work life is looking up: Her popular news segments lead her to becoming a TV host alongside absolute cad Daniel.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
He is portrayed throughout as a careerist and a cad.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
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
Then in the second episode, having behaved like a cad to Isabella for 20-ish minutes, Bobbie goes off on a rant.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
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Noun
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For those with less-briny palates, a fine jerk chicken and a number of steak cuts are also available.—
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Mike’s older sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), is our entry point to Hawkins High; a pretty striver, she’s recently been distracted from academics by a fling with popular jerk Steve Harrington (Joe Keery).—
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Choose a crate that is a comfortable size for your dog.—
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The stretchy fabric allows for a full range of motion and remains in place through every downward dog and tree pose.—
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Brewer depicts the world of music impersonators with a fair amount of affection, like the rodeo clowns of late 20th-century America.—
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Cirque du Soleil is known for its shows featuring acrobats, athletes and clowns – all doing spectacular feats.—
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So Porter is now the guy the State Police have supposedly doing a deep dive on the clowns, grifters and assorted gender-bending jokers that Maura Healey hands six-figure hack sinecures to — judicial nominees, college presidents, the heads of the veterans’ homes, etc.—
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Even more rare is finding what hunters call a joker, a truffle, weighing in at 100 grams.—
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Rodents, possums, and skunks show up to snack on the flesh and seeds.—
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While striped skunk is edible, Coalition Brewing warns against its strong odor, scavenger diet and susceptibility to parasites.—
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Plus, Texas doesn't have someone guarding the in-bounder so another body is ready to help corral those in play.—
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Urías then allowed a high bounder by Yu Chang to get by for a two-base error.—
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“Cad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cad. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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