cads

'I'm sure some that he calls cads are as good fellows as any going.'

The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Ford’s cliché only works if you reverse the genders and then we’re in cads and dads territory.

Matthew Yglesias » Hedge Fund Hotties 2007

He's discovered why 'cads' seem to pull what one rather uncouth friend of mine refers to as 'Top Totty'.

Training my Eyebrows Glyn Davies 2007

He's discovered why 'cads' seem to pull what one rather uncouth friend of mine refers to as 'Top Totty'.

Archive 2007-09-01 Glyn Davies 2007

Their con ductors, or "cads", had a reputation for violence and obscenity which lingers in the word to this day.

Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

If you follow one of those gentle "cads," however, at the close of an evening, he may be seen, cue in hand, earnestly engaged at the billiard table.

Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone

But the conquerors stamp themselves for ever and for ever among Nature's "cads" nevertheless.

Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913

The ladies, descending from the carriages, swept up and down on the green course that was so free from "cads" and "legs"; their magnificent skirts trailing along without the risk of a grain of dust; their costly laces side by side with the Austrian uniforms of the military men from

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

It was true that the boys looked upon these two, and upon the young sporting farmers who sometimes dropped in, and boasted of poaching, and horse-cheating exploits in a spirit of emulation, as "cads," who had a different code from their own; but it is very difficult to associate with persons of any station in life who think it clever to defraud others, and consider impunity as the only test of right or wrong, and to laugh at their dishonourable tricks, without blunting our own moral sense.

Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

"cads," and at other times indulging in practical jokes of all kinds, to the annoyance of some passers-by and the injury of others.

My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872