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3. Best description yet...
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 11:27 AM
Oct 2012

Quite the Cad he is.


Definition of CAD
1
: an omnibus conductor
2
: a man who acts with deliberate disregard for another's feelings or rights

Examples of CAD

He is a cad, not a gentleman.
<he's the type of cad who readily bad-mouths every girl who's ever dumped him>

Origin of CAD
English dialect, unskilled assistant, short for Scots caddie
First Known Use: 1833
Related to CAD
Synonyms: bastard, beast, bleeder [British], blighter [chiefly British], boor, bounder, bugger, buzzard, jerk, chuff, churl, clown, creep, cretin, crud [slang], crumb [slang], cur, dirtbag [slang], dog, fink, heel, hound, joker, louse, lout, pill, rat, rat fink, reptile, rotter, schmuck [slang], scum, scumbag [slang], scuzzball [slang], skunk, sleaze, sleazebag [slang], sleazeball [slang], slime, slimeball [slang], slob, snake, so-and-so, sod [chiefly British], stinkard, stinker, swine, toad, varmint, vermin
Related Words: barbarian, brute, caveman, Neanderthal, savage; loudmouth, vulgarian; lowlife, miscreant, rascal, rogue, roughneck, scab, scamp, scoundrel, villain, wretch; booby, doofus [slang], fool, jackass, nincompoop, ninny, nit [chiefly British], nitwit, nut, schmo (or schmoe) [slang]; airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, dink [slang], dolt, dope, dork [slang], goon, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, turkey; brat, insolent, nuisance, pest, snip; snob, snoot, snot; dweeb [slang], nerd

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cad

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