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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I sound cavalier, like executions are something I face on a regular basis.† (source)
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"Seven," Newt snapped, showing his disapproval of the cavalier attitude.† (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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Otherwise you are statistically cavalier.† (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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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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Mancuso frowned at his chart, nervous at being forced to pilot the massive submarine in so cavalier a manner.† (source)
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He had, he felt, treated Mrs. Hubbard rather cavalierly.† (source)
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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)
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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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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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Each time I leap, I land a little more cleanly, a little more cavalierly.† (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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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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