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What is a cad?

What is a cad? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
  2. (historical) A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
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It is hard not to think Connors is an insensitive cad for bringing up such a private matter almost 40 years after the fact.
A clueless cad tries to woo a lady with his self-produced song and macho posturing, interpreting her disdain as approval.
He knew, deeply, that in keeping his true identity from her, he had been a cad and a scoundrel, but he had been so eager for her to see him in a positive light.
This is necessary because fiddling the regimental books is clearly the action of a bounder and a cad, and shows an unheroic concern for money.
However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew.
He, true to form, behaves like a cad and leaves her for the gambling tables and his deserved fate.

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