cads

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"I only say that the cads, as you call them, manage, somehow or another, to do them best," said the Captain.

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  • Keith asked I'b allergig to cads," I said Are you?" —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • "Besides, 'cads' doesn't include women, does it? —  Adam Johnstone's Son
  • We'll jump on these two cads, and do them up now and at once! —  Frank Merriwell's Races
  • It was true that the boys looked upon these two, and upon the young sporting farmers who sometimes dropped in, and boasted of poaching, and horse-cheating exploits in a spirit of emulation, as "cads," who had a different code from their own; but it is very difficult to associate with persons of any station in life who think it clever to defraud others, and consider impunity as the only test of right or wrong, and to laugh at their dishonourable tricks, without blunting our own moral sense. —  Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
  • Cusack groaned and fumed You pack of young cads," he howled through the key-hole. —  The Willoughby Captains
 

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