cavalier

Preposition: with

fact: We have also identified stories that were cavalier with the facts - remember ' Swan Bake ' ?

Modifies a noun

• disregard: The system which has seen cavalier disregard of immigration rules become the norm in the Home office.
• attitude: Neither I nor the ABD has " a cavalier attitude " toward the Highway Code.
• fashion: What qualifies him to dismiss my article in such a cavalier fashion?
• manner: Who taught you to drink in such a cavalier manner?
• approach: I normally have a cavalier approach to red tape.
• treatment: Such a cavalier treatment of a state greatly angered the German princes.

Modifying Another Word

• remarkably: His own use of evidence in the field of religion is, given his general insistence on its importance, remarkably cavalier.
• somewhat: Eager, or perhaps desperate to land that first client, we can be somewhat cavalier about our own safety.
• rather: For some reason that triggered a rather cavalier attitude toward food for the rest of the day.
• too: He is, however, rather too cavalier about the power of speech to harm.
• so: So cavalier was the approach that there were many more birds than students.
• apparently: Numerous bad practices were highlighted, including an apparently cavalier regard for the verification of ballot papers.