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cavalier

Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.

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#1·Apr 26, 2026

Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.

But, on the following day, no sign of Poirot. I was getting angry. He was really treating us in the most cavalier fashion.
Origin: First appears c. 1562 in a translation by Peter Whitehorne. Borrowed from , itself borrowed from , borrowed from , from , from , probably from Gaulish caballos 'nag', variant of cabillos (compare Welsh ceffyl, Breton kefel, Irish capall), akin to German (Swabish) Kōb 'nag' and 'mare'. Previous English forms include cavalero and cavaliero.. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “Maybe people wouldn't be so cavalier about announcing metaphorical hills on which they would die if more people actually made to die on hills for liking Pepsi or a particular toilet paper placement.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Lucy is a Cavapoo. Cavalier King Charles mom and Poodle dad. Both 18 lbs. - she is already 21 lbs at 9 months. 😳”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “The Rentals CD got a lot of play in my Chevy Cavalier back in 1996. A-woo-hoo-hoo!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Some people just like old cheap cars of course, but I'm intrigued by this idea that knocking around in an old base-model Cavalier or whatever is a time capsule not just of the car, but of the normie lifestyle that the original owner might have had.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • ““I was really struck by the cavalier attitude with which everybody involved was making these decisions and these discussions. This is a multibillion-dollar project. They are talking about building one of the largest gas-fired electrical power plants on planet Earth."”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#2·Apr 26, 2026

Supercilious.

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  • “Centaur cavalier is so fin dude”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “MacDowell refers to "the cavalier and public—again, public—posts by your client, who is a public elected official, period and should know better than to be making public statements that are going to be followed by other people."”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Our Friend cavalier lived till she was 13,🤞 Mine are the same breed but not related, the bigger ones a 9 yr old male other is a 5 yr old female. Absolutely spoiled rotten by my wife,”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “As all, very surprised on MLS. Also Calafiori and White togerher seems a bit more cavalier than usual.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Battledroid MagicaVoxel > Blender animation. Voxhl-Cavalier infantry variants with bazooka and grenade launcher. #indiedev #voxels #magicavoxel #b3d #battledroid”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 26, 2026

High-spirited.

Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness
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