I've been a beast, a selfish cad.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
I can't be such a cad as to stop any longer; she oughtn't to say this sort of thing, and yet I-I can't tell her so!
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
I was a cad to swear but somehow-oh, I don't know, and he sank down upon the chair again.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke