caddishness

noun

as in boorishness

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  1. churlishness
  2. brashness
  3. sauciness
  4. crudeness
  5. vulgarity
  6. shamelessness
  7. boldness
  8. audacity
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  • 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
Definition of churlishness
Noun
  • Fans walked around downtown in gear declaring their dominance - national championship tees and Rose Bowl jackets - and businesses hung signs in homage to their head coach’s brashness.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • As fashion cycles through infinite stages of nostalgia—particularly the brashness of the ’80s and the sleek, techy sportiness of the ’90s—there’s something about airbrushing that feels less overt and slightly irreverent.
    — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of brashness
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  • Lace and leather gloves sourced from vintage costumers added a touch of sauciness to Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera evening dresses worn to the ballet and and the theater.
    — Nicky Josephine, Vogue, 29 June 2026
Definition of sauciness
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of crudeness
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  • Lower courts upheld the ban, finding the veiled vulgarity of the phrase allows schools to ban it.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The diaries—particularly in Julian Sachs’s unexpurgated version, which captures Pavese’s alternating earnestness, archness, and pungent vulgarity—pose something of a problem.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • The lucrative example paved the way for more than two decades of musical theater shamelessness.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • 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
Definition of shamelessness
Noun
  • But animation is just so much more expressive, so much more information can be carried through color and line size and boldness and the kind of unreal physicality that nonetheless conveys real emotion.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Because of the boldness of their political positions and doctrines, progressives can be seen as more charismatic than their more centrist counterparts.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of boldness
Noun
  • The artist needs to have the audacity to trust that the audience will get the joke.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Within such a movement, no band is embracing it with the tenacity — or the audacity — of Dexter and the Moonrocks.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of audacity
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“Caddishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caddishness. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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