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Caddish

adjective
1.
Offensively discourteous.  Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant.






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"Caddish" Quotes from Famous Books



... swaggeringly passed judgment upon Adolf Menzel, Boecklin, Liebermann, and other celebrated German masters. In expanding his theories of painting, he always used his lost treasures as examples. Stoss never wearied of getting the caddish genius to describe his paintings, the loss of which in Fleischmann's opinion was the worst disaster connected with the sinking of the Roland. The form that Doctor Wilhelm's teasing of Fleischmann took was, when Ingigerd ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

... we each of us wear a chip on our shoulder, simply because we've never taken the trouble to know each other well. Most English we Americans meet are stupid and caddish and uninteresting; and most of the Americans you see are boastful, loud-talking and money-mad. Our mutual impressions are wholly ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath



Words linked to "Caddish" :   unchivalrous, discourteous, ungallant



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