cad
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The novel reads like a wintry elegy to the once proud cad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Forty-five years after Paul Schrader immortalized Richard Gere as an “American Gigolo,” he’s cast him again as a rather run-of-the-mill American cad.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
The underdog here is Mark Ruffalo, whose comic turn as the cad Duncan Wedderburn in "Poor Things."
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2024
In the past, words or phrases deemed to have stepped over the line include "impertinent dog", "cad", "blethering", "guttersnipe" and "git".
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023
Notwithstanding that the devil, played by Cook, gives himself away at once by wearing red socks, the infallible mark of a cad, Dudley falls into conversation with him.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing cad
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