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caddish

/kad-ish/US // ˈkæd ɪʃ //

狡猾的,狡猾的人,狡黠的,狡诈的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like a cad; dishonorable; ungentlemanly: caddish behavior.

Examples

  • This “ surprising option” (as the tone-deaf Times headline calls it) is often viewed as caddish.

  • I told them it was caddish to insult a fallen foe, but they would go and stick up those beastly notices.'

  • But to assert it now, after he had done the unexpected, after the mountain had come to Mahomet, seemed caddish and ridiculous.

  • If there was anything like a code of interplanetary morals or manners one might call it absolutely caddish.

  • She was worth a million dollars to Tony: and the million dollars were worth a basely caddish act to Garth.

  • I am afraid, though its caddish to say it, that she did care a good deal about me, and that thats the root of it.