CADDISH Synonyms: 118 Similar and Opposite Words

caddish

adjective

Definition of caddish

as in boorish

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Recent Examples of caddish The movie centers on an aspiring filmmaker played by Winona Ryder who is pursued by a responsible corporate striver (Ben Stiller, the film’s director) and a caddish poet who hates the right things (Ethan Hawke). — New York Times, 14 July 2022 Colombian crooner Maluma, who plays Kat’s caddish fiance, Sarah Silverman and Michelle Buteau round out the cast. — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022 Did Aretha’s caddish first husband and manager, Ted White (played here by a terrific Marlon Wayans), really come storming out of the bedroom, grumbling about the lateness of the hour? — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021 Enter Laura’s caddish Playboy father, Felix (Bill Murray), who reconnects with his daughter by taking her on an adventure to determine whether Dean is being unfaithful. — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2020 Catherine turns the tables on her caddish suitor and bars him from her life. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020 Caroline and her husband Peregrine, Earl of Brockenhurst (Tom Wilkinson), fear for the legacy of their household if Peregrine's gambler brother (James Fleet) and caddish nephew (Adam James) get hold of their fortune after the Earl passes. — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020

Recent Examples of Synonyms for caddish

Adjective

The most surprising appearance of all, however, is that of longtime media executive Jeff Zucker, tearing into a boorish version of himself.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026
The poem tells us of 12 slave girls who sleep with Penelope’s boorish suitors.

— Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026

Definition of boorish

Adjective

Oasis’s loutish laddishness represented all the worst bits of modern Britain.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, the palace has been besieged by loutish suitors, led by the scheming Antinous (Robert Pattinson), all of them vying for the queen’s hand in remarriage and mooching off the absent king’s food and wine.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 17 July 2026

Definition of loutish

Adjective

People had used rude words on television before, but never in such uncouth tones as Lydon and Jones in a regional ITV interview on 1 December 1976.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Aug. 2026
His gruff mechanic Cooter Davenport is introduced as a hell-raising, uncouth wild man, constantly taunting the authorities and flouting convention.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of uncouth

Adjective

But the tournament will also be remembered for a classless and churlish Argentina, which forever stained itself with a thuggish performance in the game and an ungracious one afterward.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
If Vance now recognizes his comments as churlish, lacking in charity, and utterly unlikely to persuade voters, much less witness to the sublime truths of the Christian religion, good for him.

— Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of churlish

Adjective

This is our introduction to He and She, two clownish, pugilistic lovers who are locked in a war of words, even as a literal war rages outside.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
In each of those projects, Johnson created a role for himself, typically a clownish dreamer.

— Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of clownish

Adjective

Now, Simmons is unfortunately known for one of college football's most vulgar sack celebrations ever.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Referee Ronald Torbert gave the officiating crew a vulgar instruction while his microphone remained on after announcing the fumble on the kickoff had been reversed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of vulgar

Adjective

That meant going their own way, being a little insolent and being arrogant.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
In the 18th century, lusty also meant insolent, which might have conveyed Anderson’s frustrations with Dina’s unwillingness to accept his authority over her.

— Carolyn Zola, The Conversation, 11 June 2026

Definition of insolent

Adjective

The movie is an epic series of harrumphs and harangues, propelled from room to room—and, in time, out into the world beyond the estate—by a spirit of impudent absurdism and corrosive cynicism which seems to emanate from Digger himself.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Mantello wasn’t being impudent.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026

Definition of impudent

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