(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."
Sprightly
Definition:
(superl.) Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gloom was soon to build when five minutes after the interval Giggs won a corner with a sprightly run.
(2) Charles Pooter, a man with a biography, a face, a surname, and even a proper wife and a degree of affection for his none to noteworthy existence, gives a sprightly and daily account of his own life in the form of a diary.
(3) Blatter will be a sprightly 94 years old by then, so if you think his judgement's gone now, it'll be very interesting to see what modernist masterpiece he commissions when the task finally needs sorting.
(4) Stuck between the cultist Friends of Radio 3 and Global Radio’s sprightly three-times-the-size Classic FM, the network vacillates between populist copying and public service broadcasting stodge.
(5) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian Antonino Vaccarino, a sprightly, bespectacled 68-year-old, today runs a small cinema in the back streets of town, but once served as mayor before being jailed for five years for mafia membership – on the basis, he claims, of false accusations made by a turncoat.
(6) Buffon does not look especially sprightly as he comes for it but manages to punch it to safety.
(7) In Aronofsky's film, Crowe takes the title role of the man said to be around 600 at the time of the flood, while Hopkins is Methuselah, who was a sprightly 969.
(8) From the outset, Arsenal had been the more sprightly and inventive, and that pattern continued when Cesc Fábregas clipped a dainty ball over the Spurs defence for Nasri to chase.
(9) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(10) Judy was under five feet tall, a sprightly figure, vivacious and pretty rather than beautiful, her pale skin accentuated by the bright red of her lips in the old three-strip Technicolor.
(11) He is a sprightly, bearded Dubliner of 48 who has a plumbing business called Associated Response and wears its uniform every day in the dock, as he is still doing work in the evenings and at weekends.
(12) A few weeks later, we meet at a photographic studio in east London: the sun is shining, Radcliffe's cough has gone, and he looks more sprightly than ever.
(13) There may be something in that, but many observers believe it has simply been a matter of the sprightly Martial finally persuading a somewhat stubborn manager that it does not make sense to have Rooney as first point of attack any more.
(14) National anthems: We all know them by now and Uruguay's remains more lovable - a sprightly number with menacing undertones.
(15) With Cameron Jerome well shackled by Daniel Ayala it was the sinuous runs of the sprightly Wes Hoolahan that offered Norwich’s most likely route to an equaliser.
(16) Messages with identical content (the same script and visual shot sequence) were made in two forms: child program forms (animated film, second-person address, and character voice narration with sprightly music) and adult program forms (live photography, third-person address, and adult male narration with sedate background music).
(17) Begovic had to be more sprightly in the 18th minute to turn away a curling effort from the edge of the area by Willian.
(18) I want to swim until I turn 105 if I can live that long,” the sprightly Nagaoka told Kyodo News.
(19) For the first time this season, the odd sprightly period of the occasional game aside, José Mourinho witnessed his side impose themselves on a contest, dominate for lengthy periods, and revel in clear superiority.
(20) Among most cases, the less sprightly life is dominant around preadolescence, which affects the orientation of psychopathology in adolescence.