cad

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I feel I'm acting like a cad, and yet I don't know how else to act.

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  1. noun A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable.

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  • An inner voice informed him that he was behaving like a cad, and he acknowledged the truth of the indictment, while in the same moment he was prepared to reply more irritably than before He had not the chance, however, for Mollie's eyes met his without the faintest shadow of reproach. —  The Fortunes of the Farrells
  • Lady Turnour behaved like a cad, as usual, but what can you expect? —  The Motor Maid
  • "Steele has in his possession full proofs of his innocence and I have seen them; they go to show that he suffered through the cowardice of a miserable cad, a titled scoundrel who struck his hand from the gunwale of the boat when the Lord Nelson went down, yes, you told that story in your fevered ramblings, Steele Forsythe!" —  Half A Chance
  • Did I stay to fight the duel with that, what I know now to call a cad, and thus be put back into the person of the Marquise de Grez and Bye for a wicked Uncle to murder. —  The Daredevil
  • Nobody can say that the abominable misconduct of Maulincour--who is a hopeless "cad"--is too much punished, though an Englishman may think that Dr. Johnson's receipt of three or four footmen with cudgels, applied repeatedly and unsparingly, would have been better than elaborately prepared accidents and duels, which were too honorable for a Peeping Tom of this kind; and poisonings, which reduced the avengers to the level of their victim. —  The Thirteen
 

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  1. Short for caddie.

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  1. Prob. short for Scots cadie, caddie, caddy, an errand-boy, etc.: see caddie.
  2. apparently a capricious use (‘native cads’) of cad. Not a reduction of cicada as pronounced si-cad′ä̤?.
 

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