caddishness

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Noun
  • Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Carolina did make one addition, trading for fighter Nic Deslauriers, but the brashness the Hurricanes’ front office has shown in recent years didn’t lead to the type of headline-making move seen in recent seasons.
    Cory Lavalette, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In recent years, Ye’s irreverence and brashness shifted into something darker and far more dangerous.
    Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The values are different now, the lifestyles, the accepted vulgarity, the manners, the view of what’s patriotic and what’s not, the concept of service.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • It is hoped that political ad campaigns would aim to lessen the meanness and divisiveness and vulgarity that have damaged our democracy.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The world has gotten a glimpse of the fawning, skeezy shamelessness of his famous hangers-on, but not enough to criminally implicate them.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • But, in an interview given in October, 2001, Navarro attempted to fill, with what sounds like shamelessness, the gap between himself and his alter ego.
    Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Since her early days as a salon receptionist, the artist formerly known as Catherine Garner has channeled her unbridled id with a head-spinning boldness that would be probable cause for exorcism in most God-fearing countries.
    Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Keep actions small and consistent so your natural boldness builds trust rather than friction.
    Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Not four years ago, Crocker remembers walking into the Superdome for the 2022 Final Four, in awe of the audacity of the event.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Moreover, currently sitting at 85 percent on the Tomatometer, reviews for The Drama have been generally good with some critics praising director Kristoffer Borgli’s audacity and the movie’s deliberate provocations as a means of addressing the messy current cultural moment.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That straight-forwardness is a hallmark not only of her marketing insights, but also of her leadership.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Caddishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caddishness. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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