How to Use cad in a Sentence

cad

noun
  • He is a cad, not a gentleman.
  • Robin agrees, and these cads seem to be earning their paycheck for once.
    — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Scovel, too, is just right, a cad who is a reckless little boy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2021
  • The predator has been softened into a mere cad, but that’s part of the plan.
    — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 23 June 2017
  • There are so many more kings and cads, great men and flawed leaders left for Neeson to play.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Clare learns to love his chaos while renovating him into a nicer cad.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2022
  • Handsome and popular, his bad boyfriend would be a stock cad in any other movie.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The men in these women’s lives are, thankfully, neither boors nor cads.
    — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Is there any singer in the world better at playing the heartbroken cad than blackbear?
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 1 June 2018
  • Reid Scott has made something of an art out of portraying charming cads.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 June 2019
  • But the Franklin that emerges here is often bullheaded and foolish—even a cad.
    — Sam Kean, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • But most men, including cads such as Kevin, still expect to marry.
    — Mark Regnerus, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Played by anyone else, Felix would be a detestable, sexist cad.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Herbert had a reputation as a patron of the arts and was something of a cad.
    — V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Only the most miserable cad would not wish good things to come to Thai and Danielle Dang.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 8 Aug. 2017
  • This is a cad’s special pleading, but most cads don’t have Roth’s mountains of evidence.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Though Lance has fun playing a bounder and cad of the first order, the script doesn’t particularly need him.
    — Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
  • Tracy Letts is one such person, but his Chicago anecdote paints Colbert as a cad.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Capable and probably gifted as a reporter, sure, but very much a cad — a white Japanophile unleashed.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Pearce makes the writer just chummy enough to like with a few possible cad-like tendencies thrown in to keep it interesting.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Seconds before being struck by the floats of Fire and Ice, the clueless cad was yanked back into the crowd by his lovely date.
    — al, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The typical Speedy plot casts him as a thief and a cad, and his fellow Mexican mice as lazy, drunk and happily living amongst trash.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The typical Speedy plot casts him as a thief and a cad, and his fellow Mexican mice as lazy, drunk and happily living amongst trash.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Hanks, meanwhile is having a ball as Bradlee, a charming and crass cad with a mission and an army of capable reporters trying to get the story.
    — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But thanks to Freeman Hartley’s direction, Rock avoids becoming the cad who inspired so many blues songs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Then in the second episode, having behaved like a cad to Isabella for 20-ish minutes, Bobbie goes off on a rant.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The white Detroit Pistons center Bill Laimbeer was a graceless cad in defeat.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
  • With stop-on-a-dime agility, the actresses also provide the voices for a number of other characters, including the cad.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Concomitantly, Trevor Howard’s Wagner, in this full-length cut, is not the usual cartoon cad.
    — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • Eva might meet the perfect guy (Jason Lewis), but can't break the spell of her attraction to cads, or embrace her 40-something body as-is.
    — Amy Nicholson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018

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