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Example sentences for "cavalierly"

Lexicographically close words:
caval; cavalcade; cavalcades; cavalerie; cavalier; cavaliers; cavalleros; cavallo; cavallos; cavalry
  1. His disposition to treat the new laws cavalierly while obeying the maxims of a Code for aristocrats, his behavior and character, were all pondered, analyzed, and tested by a few adroit persons in du Croisier's interests.

  2. The one in question who treated me so cavalierly last August in that business regarding the disappearance of that chap James Colliver?

  3. He even, through Gräfin von Stachelberg, transmitted to her his regrets that she and her mother had been treated so cavalierly at the Hotel Impérial.

  4. But you would have thought he had been born without it; so Lord Nelson- like and cavalierly did he sport the honorable stump.

  5. Had he cavalierly left them to survive the banquet by themselves?

  6. There is no woman on earth who will treat you more cavalierly than one who is absolutely certain that your love will not fail her.

  7. You are not satisfied, then, Marquis, with what I so cavalierly said about your condition?

  8. Once he had put his resolution into words, the idea back-fired to scorch Grant with sudden comprehension of what would be involved in such a cavalierly course of action.

  9. Why should he be treated thus cavalierly when the girl had surely read the great love he bore her and his single desire to place himself between her and the menace of one who had prompted murder?

  10. And thus cavalierly dismissed, Mr. Percy bowed, somewhat less gallantly than when entering, and left the room.

  11. He was a cavalierly man of southern birth and breeding--tall and handsome, and of courtly bearing, a great lover of the theatre.

  12. He had been cavalierly affronted by a man who, but a few short years before, he would have considered a mere underling.

  13. Enter Mayor Sluss, sad, heavy, subdued, shrunken, a very different gentleman from the one who had talked so cavalierly over the wires some five and a half hours before.

  14. But the Oriental strain in the man made him an adept at a waiting game; and finding himself cavalierly thrust aside, he could do no otherwise than remain in the background for the present, alert, vigilant, cursing his luck.

  15. He came forward at once; and Desmond, cavalierly ousting Rob, made room for him on the lower end of his chair.

  16. Why Alison should have chosen to slight him so cavalierly when in transit through London passed his comprehension.

  17. He was vexed to exasperation by the consciousness that he couldn't guess why or by whom it had been so cavalierly thrust into his keeping.

  18. He and the other youngsters landed with a crushed-in notion that India would treat them very cavalierly before she took them to herself.

  19. Therefore, he decided that under no circumstances should Rosemary McClean be treated cavalierly until the Rangars were out of the way and he could pose as her protector if need be.

  20. He knew--just as the priests feared--that once he could trick and defeat Jaimihr he could treat the troublesome priests as cavalierly as he chose.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavalierly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abruptly; curtly; harshly; shortly