cavalier
骑士,骑兵,骑士队,骑马者
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- : one having the spirit or bearing of a knight; a courtly gentleman; gallant.
- : a man escorting a woman or acting as her partner in dancing.
- : an adherent of Charles I of England in his contest with Parliament.
- 1
- : haughty, disdainful, or supercilious: an arrogant and cavalier attitude toward others.
- : offhand or unceremonious: The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.
- : of or relating to the Cavaliers.
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Cavalier poets or their work.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The metrics are good, and I don’t say that with a cavalier attitude.
“That’s pretty startling stuff in there in terms of the laxity or almost cavalier attitude about” attorney conduct, Carpenter said.
They aren’t cavalier about the health risks but say something critical is at stake.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated years earlier, Salazar appeared cavalier about his own drug use.
Take into account fuel economy, parking, and the fact that you’ll probably still need a commuter car if you’re based in a big city, and that cavalier road-trip machine might start to feel like a logistics nightmare.
The mindsets of both Cavalier and Puritan took root in the New World, and the experiment launched in 1776 continues.
"There is a cost to such a cavalier attitude," said Aparício, the former Bolivian ambassador to Washington.
“Wrong station, mate, you want the next,” you tell a strapping boy in a cavalier cloak.
“Some reporters may take a cavalier attitude about being a martyr for a cause,” the friend added.
I'm afraid those who have been to war and daily diced with death are rather cavalier with their health.
The other was the spirited portrait of Baron von Friedericks, a happy combination of cavalier and soldier in its manly strength.