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cad

noun as in sly, dastardly person

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Set amid the world of international showjumping, it introduced her hero: Rupert Campbell-Black - a brutish cad who treats women and horses cruelly, before mellowing slightly through the influence of his second wife, Taggie O'Hara.

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The president-elect is infamously a cad, but as the court testimony of Stormy Daniels made clear, he has no concern about the experience of any woman unfortunate enough to be alone with him.

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He and Evans never find their groove, and while Evans’ Boston-accented deadbeat cad routine is rote for him at this point, Johnson feels adrift, never locking in to a specific tone.

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It's a lot harder to be a carefree cad about town when you have child support payments or even, as the religious right hopes, a shotgun marriage.

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But his career as a humorous cad took off in 1980 when he landed the part of the “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” Franklin Hart Jr. in Colin Higgins’ radical feminist comedy, “9 to 5.”

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