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Examples
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"I do not know if there is a Spanish equivalent for the word cad."
Bandit Love Juanita Savage
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I think that when Mr. MAIS'S sense of humour has developed further he will agree with me that a man who loved as promiscuously as _Jimmy_ and then wrote over three hundred pages about it could, without much straining of the truth, be called a cad.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 Various 1898
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Up till then the sum was left to the caprice of the conductor, or "cad."
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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And so, Iām quite pleased to see that Bradley Cooper is playing the roles that I think he should be contractually obligated to play, namely the cad.
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Had that look been a voice, it would have spoken one word, and that word was "cad."
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Though she was clever, and though, in spite of her ignorance, she at once knew an intelligent man from a fool, she did not know the difference between a gentleman and a ā "cad."
The Eustace Diamonds Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1872
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Ben Roethlisberger six weeks for, basically being the worst kind of cad.
SI.com 2010
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a fool, she did not know the difference between a gentleman and a-- "cad."
The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope 1848
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"And again Jack turned on his heel, and in hot wrath left the under-master, muttering again between his set teeth as he did so the one word 'cad.'
Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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