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cad

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–noun 
1. an ill-bred man, esp. one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women. 
2. British Archaic. 
a. a local town boy or youth, as contrasted with a university or public school student. 
b. a servant at a university or public school. 

—Synonyms 
1. bounder (暴發戶), rotter, rascal (惡棍), 

rogue
兇猛的離群獸 (尤指象)
【生】(尤指植物的) 劣種; heel. 卑鄙的人,可惡的人

brogue schmuck curmudgeon sourpuss
gouge
(n.) a tool, the mark
(v.) [gouging] cheating, extorting esp. overcharging
Dingy
Sham




　
Hugh Grant is charming too, luxuriating in naughtiness, 

taking a holiday from 
his usual [floppy], [velvet] romantic image 

as Bridget's caddish boss, Daniel Cleaver, 

with whom the employee embarks on a bound for disaster affair. (''I've got a posh voice and a bad character,'' Cleaver admits, with Grant's full support and admiration.) Colin Firth is appealing as the decent, rich, upstanding Mark Darcy, 

his participation a cunning [pretzel] of allusive logic: 

Firth played Mr. Darcy in the exquisite 1995 BBC television adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice,'' the Austen masterpiece on which ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' is anchored. (Jones also interviews Firth on a magazine assignment in Fielding's frustratingly weak follow up novel, ''Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.'')

flaccid flabby floppy
Languid


　
The movie has otherwise been cast with dependable (perhaps infallible) British comic actors. The first time Hugh Grant appeared on screen, I chuckled for no good reason at all, just as I always do when I see Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth or Jack Nicholson--

because I know that whatever the role, they will [infuse] it with more than the doctor ordered. 

Grant can play a male Bridget Jones (as he did in "Notting Hill"), 

but he's better as a cad, and here he surpasses himself by 

lying to Bridget about Darcy and then cheating on her with a girl from the New York office. (An "American stick insect," is what Bridget tells her diary.)