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Cad

A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.

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Package 76% connected

Act or process of packing.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scoundrel 76% connected

A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Villain 76% connected

One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rascally 74% connected

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Rascally 74% connected

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Blackguard 92% connected

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bounder 92% connected

One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dog 92% connected

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Heel 92% connected

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hound 92% connected

A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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