cavalierly en · ADV
Pronunciation
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- /kævəˈliːɚli/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Late Latin caballāriusder. Old Occitan cavalierbor. Old Italian cavalierebor. Middle French cavalierbor. English cavalier Middle English -ly English -ly English cavalierly From cavalier + -ly.
Meanings
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In a cavalier manner.
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.
2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: Black Swan, page 46:Louis's brow wore its deepest gloom as he said, "There are few in yonder room who would so cavalierly reject my love."
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 25:He had, he felt, treated Mrs Hubbard rather cavalierly.
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 14, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 175:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more cavalierly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most cavalierly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Synonyms
disdainfully · curtly · haughtily · brusquely · superciliously