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cavalier
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cavalier as in:  a cavalier attitude

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  • I go out to The Cavalier, drink some Schlitz, play a little poker out back.†  (source)
  • Otherwise you are statistically cavalier.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mancuso frowned at his chart, nervous at being forced to pilot the massive submarine in so cavalier a manner.†  (source)
  • He had, he felt, treated Mrs. Hubbard rather cavalierly.†  (source)
  • I know you thought I was being very cavalier about my husband's personal safety, but I can assure you that I think about it a lot.†  (source)
  • Collis Clay out of the South edged a passage between the closely packed tables and greeted the Divers cavalierly.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Each time I leap, I land a little more cleanly, a little more cavalierly.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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!  (source)
uncavalier = lacking courtesy or refinement
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