Sample Sentences forcavalier (auto-selected)
cavalier as in: a cavalier attitude
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Half the officers who sat in it had served through the Revolution, and their lives, not to say their necks, had been risked for the very idea which he so cavalierly cursed in his madness. (source)cavalierly = with arrogant disregard
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"Seven," Newt snapped, showing his disapproval of the cavalier attitude.† (source)
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He was a true cavalier, with his fine embroidered coat, his commanding air, and the wealth of dark curls that flowed over his velvet collar.† (source)
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The door swung open and a young man appeared, wearing the cavalier expression of one who has just come from a ball.† (source)
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She stood back and viewed him with pride, thinking that even Jeb Stuart with his flaunting sash and plume could not look so dashing as her cavalier.† (source)
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When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.† (source)
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I go out to The Cavalier, drink some Schlitz, play a little poker out back.† (source)
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He had, he felt, treated Mrs. Hubbard rather cavalierly.† (source)
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I sound cavalier, like executions are something I face on a regular basis.† (source)
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Augustus found a small crowbar among the tools the man had cavalierly abandoned, and rode up the street to the Hat Creek corrals, where he easily pried his sign off the fence.† (source)
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Despite the importance of this research, many scientists seemed cavalier about their cultures.† (source)
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Each time I leap, I land a little more cleanly, a little more cavalierly.† (source)
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Sophie looked surprised by his cavalier attitude.† (source)
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Collis Clay out of the South edged a passage between the closely packed tables and greeted the Divers cavalierly.† (source)
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Otherwise you are statistically cavalier.† (source)
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Hutter called for the glass, and took a careful survey of the spot, before he ventured an opinion, at all; then he somewhat cavalierly expressed his dissent from that given by the Indian.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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— Y'know, I really shouldn't let you in after the treatment I have received from you this evening! So utterly uncavalier!
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uncavalier = lacking courtesy or refinement
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