What's the difference between cavalier and glib?

Cavalier


Definition:

  • (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.
  • (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
  • (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
  • (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
  • (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank.
  • (a.) High-spirited.
  • (a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (2) Cavalier-Smith (1981) has identified 22 characters that are universally present in eukaryotes but absent in prokaryotes.
  • (3) The energy levels improved in the second half as the game opened up and both teams became more cavalier and increasingly desperate in their search for a goal.
  • (4) They demonstrate, at worst, a cavalier prejudice against work that the correspondents deemed shoddy.
  • (5) In the last few weeks, Miami has had to rely on comebacks, most memorably when they dug themselves out a 27-point hole against the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (6) Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, said his party had not ruled out backing a strike but Cameron's "reckless and cavalier" approach had lost him support.
  • (7) The Cavaliers wanted no part of the draft lottery this year as they hoped to take advantage of an almost historically weak Eastern Conference field and make their first playoff appearance since the LeBron James era.
  • (8) "With independent experts warning that the number of state school students going to university could drop from October 2012, this is just one more reason why students and their families will feel let down by the government's cavalier treatment of their hopes and dreams for access to England's universities."
  • (9) The Wallace Collection, in central London, reopens its great gallery to the public on 19 September 2014, two years after a £5m project to transform a space that is normally home to spectacular works including Frans Hals' The Laughing Cavalier and Nicolas Poussin's A Dance to the Music of Time .
  • (10) Most cavalier use of ethnic and regional stereotyping When the Aladdin movie premiered, the first Gulf War was done and dusted.
  • (11) If it's a package around the Cavaliers' Andrew Wiggins, they're winners.
  • (12) The Cavaliers, who only recently hinted at the possibility of including Wiggins in a deal, have been trying to figure out a way to have both.
  • (13) The validity of the model proposed by Cavalier-Smith for the replication of linear, single-stranded DNA molecules was tested by using subgenomic DNA termini isolated from adeno-associated virus (AAV), a defective parvovirus.
  • (14) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (15) FBI officials said they arrested Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy, Bryan Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Payne on Tuesday afternoon after they stopped them along the highway.
  • (16) I really hope the ATP will take major action against him this time.” None of which seemed to impress the ATP – who made no mention of the incident on its website coverage of the match and then slammed a copyright ban on the footage – Kyrgios’s mother, Norlaila, who endorsed his actions before asking how she could delete her Twitter account, or his brother, Christos, who wondered if Wawrinka had assaulted Kyrgios, a cavalier suggestion coming from a lawyer.
  • (17) The problem has been compounded by an equally cavalier approach to pay and costs – which goes right back to Margaret Thatcher's opportunist pledge to pay the police more than Jim Callaghan's Labour – and by a bipartisan reluctance, ever since, to submit the policing needs of modern Britain to objective strategic scrutiny through something like the royal commission on policing for which some have rightly called.
  • (18) The minister’s cavalier and populist approach to his portfolio is undermining the sector’s capacity to attract much-needed investment and to capitalise on growing global food demand,” Fitzgibbon said.
  • (19) It was that team effort that won the game; five in double figures for the Warriors and 28 assists for the NBA champions, compared to just 12 for the Cavaliers.
  • (20) Lord Bingham said: "Weight should ordinarily be given to the professional judgment of an editor or journalist in the absence of some indication that it was made in a casual, cavalier, careless or slipshod manner."

Glib


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
  • (superl.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
  • (v. t.) To make glib.
  • (n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
  • (v. t.) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (2) Niven found himself disturbed by some glib answers from Salmond, but he’s still swithering.
  • (3) In excerpts of these videos I am shown making a series of glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments”, Gruber told the committee.
  • (4) I no longer want to vote for glib promises that are abandoned the day after an election; I want to vote on specific issues.
  • (5) "Would all these girls," he asks, with a sorrow that defies any glib, one-should-be-so-lucky retort, "be fucking me if they weren't getting paid?"
  • (6) UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: “We must move beyond glib and superficial analysis of youth unemployment and its causes if we are to give the next generation a real chance in life.
  • (7) Rolling news and the internet favour glib commentary over serious journalism.
  • (8) Coleridge, denouncing “a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists”, asked: “Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?” Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the “sole nexus” between human beings.
  • (9) Above all, more must be done to make sure the destination after school is not into Neet status – now a rather glib term that hides a range of problems that stretch far into a young person's future, not least in future lost earnings.
  • (10) Salmond’s reminiscences about each were more than mere glib anecdotes of a statesman eager to convey something of the circles in which he moved.
  • (11) While I'm in no position to understand the genuine motives of thousands of women (Facebook memes do have a habit of indirectly bullying people into appearing worthy), the effect of such mass and glib support was not greeted with enthusiasm by all those more directly affected by cancer.
  • (12) I mean, I think in this world, the more communication we have, the more people tend to be glib, and arch, and Hank could never do that.
  • (13) Kezia Dugdale and Ken Macintosh ought to bear all this in mind as they resist moves to decouple from the Westminster party, save for the glib assertion that they will seek more autonomy (whatever that’s supposed to mean).
  • (14) There are glib and sometimes foolish comparisons with the 1930s.
  • (15) It’s as if she’s forgotten that the emotions that were galvanised were because everyone despised her for being so glib.
  • (16) "I have political issues with the idea of speaking about [art] in relation to the revolution in general," said Hassan Khan, who said it was glib to map artistic progression to the contours of a political event that was still very much in flux.
  • (17) And I think when you’re the kid in that situation, it’s really easy to be glib and just want your parents to catch up to who you’re turning yourself into.
  • (18) It is a glib analogy that bestows on Eritrea an aura of mystery that is neither desired nor deserved, and not only because the country poses no nuclear threat.
  • (19) Clegg was just glib and irrelevant, acting as if he’d been in opposition for the last five years rather than in government.
  • (20) Despite all that, we remain mostly ill-equipped to talk about the realities of the disease; our formulas seem paltry or glib.