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    cavalier


    1. That his boy, his one link back to his beloved first wife, should treat him in such a cavalier fashion, whatever the promptings of teenage hormones, was too hard to bear


    2. should treat him in such a cavalier fashion, whatever the


    3. The flat spray of flowers waved at the end of its long stalk as though protesting at such cavalier treatment


    4. that was far too cavalier for his tastes; in these circumstances he would have preferred a more


    5. “That’s heartless,” uttered Coal, horrified that people could buy, sell, and ransom other folk in such a cold and cavalier manner


    6. I am anything but cavalier


    7. She’d be as indifferent and cool with him as his cavalier attitude regarding meeting her showed him to be – and she wasn’t going to show up looking like this


    8. Beth’s attitude sounded cavalier, but he was sure that lurking below was the same raw fear that gripped him


    9. I wasn’t reassured by his cavalier attitude, but I was too hungry to protest


    10. But once he got the job, he became quite laid-back, and his cavalier attitude gave me fits

    11. Thus you have the temerity to approach one such as me with such a cavalier attitude


    12. You realize that some of your opponents may not be as cavalier about losing as you are about winning


    13. I headed out the door towards the blue Cavalier


    14. I must say that you were treated by some in a rather cavalier way


    15. Unfortunately, I could not deny my true feelings for this cavalier and absolutely handsome young man; I fell in love and was too blind to care about anything else or anyone’s stern advice, that of my father having resurfaced just at the time I accepted my feelings as genuine


    16. look, evidently as a warning for his cavalier hands


    17. “I’m standing in hot sand at the moment, so they are fine for now, thanks for asking!” Max closed the call, a bit irked at Sam’s cavalier attitude


    18. Bye!” She ended the call, leaving Amy aghast at her cavalier attitude


    19. The war started in such a cavalier way by Stalin was quickly turning into a disaster, even though the official propaganda and the secret police were careful to make the public believe that the Soviet forces were winning and advancing rapidly inside Poland and the Baltic states


    20. In Jammu and Kashmir, the call for a ‘nationalist’ government which will seek to abolish Article 370 is also disconcerting—politically sensitive issues cannot be settled in a cavalier manner

    21. He flattened his shirt, trying to look cavalier


    22. I was also in awe of the cavalier way Q handled Prometheus"s


    23. What kind of man could be so cavalier,


    24. But they – those baptized by the cavalier indifference of our industrial waste – are the ones who bathe in the headwaters of our self-absolution


    25. I remembered the young man with the cavalier beard


    26. links to terrorist organizations and her cavalier response when confronted,


    27. Then he leaned down, and scooped her up into his arms before she even knew what he intended to do, (or could protest about his cavalier action)


    28. It's not like you to be so cavalier about … " She looked down at the door handle and her hand resting upon it


    29. It was a karaoke type bar thus Bob was able to exchange Figaro driving his cavalier for Beelzebub and the devils’ sideboard


    30. “Oh Nicholas,” she said, “I don"t need another Telly in my life and cavalier declarations of love

    31. He was being as cavalier as he could be


    32. But if this cavalier guess is correct it could be a metaphor for the transmission of information, but definitely not even flimsy evidence for even the possibility of Christ having a sexual relationship with Mary


    33. His patience was still on edge, and he felt willing to risk the reputation of his manners against the cavalier approach the group was taking towards its case this morning


    34. Cruncher, and finding him of her opinion, Miss Pross resorted to the Good Republican Brutus of Antiquity, attended by her cavalier


    35. The incomprehensible language and the unpromising looks of our cavalier only increased the ladies' laughter, and that increased his irritation, and matters might have gone farther if at that moment the landlord had not come out, who, being a very fat man, was a very peaceful one


    36. cavalier, knows that the enemy is pushing a mine towards the post where he is stationed, and cannot under any circumstances retire or fly from the imminent danger that threatens him? All he can do is to inform his captain of what is going on so that he may try to remedy it by a


    37. The first to fall was the Goletta, until then reckoned impregnable, and it fell, not by any fault of its defenders, who did all that they could and should have done, but because experiment proved how easily entrenchments could be made in the desert sand there; for water used to be found at two palms depth, while the Turks found none at two yards; and so by means of a quantity of sandbags they raised their works so high that they commanded the walls of the fort, sweeping them as if from a cavalier, so that no one was able to make a stand or maintain the defence


    38. The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him and said,


    39. The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all closing in around him, they set out with him for the city, to the music of the clarions and the drums


    40. Luigi slowly relinquished Teresa's arm, which he had held beneath his own, and Teresa, accompanied by her elegant cavalier, took her appointed place with much agitation in the aristocratic quadrille

    41. eye each movement of Teresa and her cavalier; when their hands touched, he felt as though he should swoon; every pulse beat with violence, and it seemed as though a bell were ringing in his ears


    42. When they spoke, although Teresa listened timidly and with downcast eyes to the conversation of her cavalier, as Luigi could read in the ardent looks of the good-looking young man that his language was that of praise, it seemed as if the whole world was turning round with him, and all the voices of hell were whispering in his ears ideas of murder and assassination


    43. And with overpowering compliments her handsome cavalier led her back to the place whence he had taken her, and where Luigi awaited her


    44. "'And what said your cavalier to you?'—'He said it only depended on myself to have it, and


    45. "Nay, I flatter myself that there can be no doubt of it," replied the cavalier in the cloak


    46. "Well," cried he, with that benevolent politeness which distinguished his salutation from the common civilities of the world, "my cavalier has attained his object


    47. "'My ancestor, Sir Ralph Musgrave, was a prominent Cavalier and the right-hand man of Charles the Second in his wanderings,' said my friend


    48. They rattled up to the house and saw Patty’s Cavalier and another car, some bucket-seated sportscar that looked about ten years old, spattered with mud


    49. ” Hagan’s voice morphed into the cold, cavalier tone he’d used during the anomaly hearings years ago


    50. There were a great many ladies and some of Nicholas’ Moscow acquaintances, but there were no men who could at all vie with the cavalier of St














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    Synonyms for "cavalier"

    cavalier royalist chevalier high-handed aristocrat gallant escort rider knight horseman arrogant disdainful supercilious lofty indifferent casual careless

    "cavalier" definitions

    a gallant or courtly gentleman


    a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War


    given to haughty disregard of others