Example sentences for: cavalier

How can you use “cavalier” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That acknowledgment having been made, I find myself continually irritated by their cavalier dismissal of everything that human beings developed in the course of history: it reflects an adolescent mentality that is scornful of anything that might have taken place before these parvenu geniuses put finger to keyboard.

  • Is it cavalier to dismiss this past week as a simple illustration that humans sometimes act like sheep?

  • I'll try not to be cavalier about this, but asking me whether I ever play "real" people means you never saw my Mike Wallace or Alan Thicke on Saturday Night Live , and, more sadly, means that you're one of the Washingtonians deprived of my radio broadcast, "Le Show," on which you'd hear Clinton, Gore, Newt, Newt's mom, Carville, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Hillary, Monica, Linda Tripp, Ken Starr, et al.

  • 5) For a man who takes his own cogitations extremely seriously, Krugman is remarkably cavalier about attributing motives and beliefs to others.

  • Like so much else, sexy shoes used to be a male privilege, from the aristocratic pointed poulaines of the 15 th century that stretched out as far as 30 inches to the huge cavalier boots of the 17 th century, with their high scarlet heels and great butterfly shapes over the instep.


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