cavalierly

English

Etymology

cavalier +‎ -ly

Adverb

cavalierly (comparative more cavalierly, superlative most cavalierly)

  1. In a cavalier manner.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 25:
      Louis's brow wore its deepest gloom as he said, "There are few in yonder room who would so cavalierly reject my love."
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 14, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 175:
      He had, he felt, treated Mrs Hubbard rather cavalierly.
    • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: Black Swan, page 46:
      Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one fifty-thousandth of the way.

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