cavalierly
English
Etymology
cavalier + -ly
Adverb
cavalierly (comparative more cavalierly, superlative most cavalierly)
- In a cavalier manner.
- 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, pg.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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Synonyms
- superciliously
- haughtily
- disdainfully
- curtly
- brusquely