(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."
Haughty
Definition:
(superl.) High; lofty; bold.
(superl.) Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
(superl.) Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he was apt to say to those with a haughty attitude things like: "Do you know who I am?
(2) The mountain is haughty and proud, an enormous glacier fills the valley in front and in the foreground – giving scale to the scene and a sense of infeasibility to the task facing the men inside them – is a little collection of tents.
(3) In "Marching (As Seen from the Left File)", for instance, he describes the men from the perspective of one of them and in "Break of Day in the Trenches" he identifies with the lowly rat against the "haughty athletes".
(4) One member, in a very haughty voice, said, rather like Lady Bracknell's "A handbag?"
(5) Janice Turner, The Times 'Haughty' … Gwyneth Paltrow.
(6) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said Mandela "was never haughty.
(7) Her supposed haughtiness, she claims, stems simply from a lack of confidence.
(8) Nobody in Whitehall wants to risk a repeat of the calamity of 1973 – when President Richard Nixon ordered an end to intelligence sharing with Britain, having taken a dim view of Edward Heath's cosiness to Europe, and his haughty attitude to the US.
(9) The SNP leader would like to stage the referendum in 2014, the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, one of those rare Scottish victories over England on the battlefield when Robert the Bruce and his stubborn warriors defeated a large and haughty force of English knights.
(10) The surprise in the film was not just that the French had made a decent rom-com – "We were all saying, suddenly, when it was made, that it was sort of the best of the French and the British types of these films, which is rare, and why it works" – but that Paradis, with no comedy films behind her, had made such a fine rom-com lead: mesmerisingly watchable in the first half in particular, when she plays haughty and hard-to-get; before, of course, the melt.
(11) Strong-arming a second administration out of consulting a suffering populace could look dangerously like haughty contempt.
(12) Many in Ireland, used to the populist bonhomie of working-class male politicians such as Bertie Ahern, have always found her cool, even haughty.
(13) Not many clubs can say that,” Wenger said, during a slightly haughty press conference.
(14) Jadranka adds: "This was my offence," and she pulls out an identity card from the period: a haughty face, high cheekbones, jet black hair and very beautiful.
(15) Tall and with a haughty baritone not unlike that of his conservative arch-enemy William F Buckley Jr, Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface.
(16) And when the British belatedly repented their haughty disdain for the European project, and applied to join, it was under Harold Macmillan’s Tory government.
(17) As if to atone for that disaster, its latest ill-advised form of words, chosen to pacify the restive masses, is " It is not prejudiced to worry about immigration " – but that won't dispel the lingering whiff of haughty moral judgment (shades here of a danger that awaits all out-of-touch politicians: the rhetorical equivalent of Ceausescu's right hand, attempting to still the crowd as the gesture made them even more irate).
(18) His comments have a grain of truth in them, certainly, but they played to the Times's weak spot – the impression that it can radiate a patrician aloofness, of haughty disregard of the lessons it could learn from competitors.
(19) Dimitar Berbatov slotted it away with haughty indifference to mere goalkeepers at spot-kicks.
(20) And the moment they find one, they launch into a performance of such deranged, self-assured haughtiness, the Daily Mail seems hopelessly amateur by comparison.