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Caddish

//ˈkædɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of a cad, discourteous, ungentlemanly, dishonorable.

    "To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age. It is caddish because it is irrelevant. The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion."

Adjective
  1. 1
    offensively discourteous wordnet

Etymology

From cad + -ish.

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