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cavalierly

adv
/kævəˈliːɚli/US

Etymology

From cavalier + -ly.

  1. derived from caballus
  2. derived from caballārius
  3. derived from cavalier
  4. derived from cavaliere
  5. borrowed from cavalier
  6. suffixed as cavalierly — “cavalier + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a cavalier manner.

    • Louis's brow wore its deepest gloom as he said, "There are few in yonder room who would so cavalierly reject my love."
    • He had, he felt, treated Mrs Hubbard rather cavalierly.
    • 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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