casual attitude
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcasualandattitude
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casual
adjective
uk/ˈkæʒ.ju.əl/us/ˈkæʒ.uː.əl/
Casual clothes are not formal or not suitable for ...
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attitude
noun
uk/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofcasualandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcasual attitude
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The contrast between crown vigilance in protecting its income and itscasualattitudetoward complaints about dissent could not have been more marked.
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Strother's routine encounters with death led to acasualattitudetoward the violence, alcoholism, poverty and human suffering all around him.
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The word "eventual" seems to suggest a leisurely and almostcasualattitude.
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I am appalled at thecasualattitudeof the leaders of industry and those in business in this country.
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They have adopted acasualattitudetowards its enforcement.
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There seems to have been a rathercasualattitudethroughout our proceedings.
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What explains, then, such a lack of foresight, such acasualattitude?
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This, again, is altogether inadequate, and the rathercasualattitudeat present being adopted must cease.
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Information on businesses that have a rathercasualattitudeto food safety must be made public.
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All reality is disappearing because people are becoming too sophisticated and are prepared to take acasualattitude.
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Such a philosophy also produced a verycasualattitudeto the finite resources of the world.
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It is a horrible example of thecasualattitudewhich creeps into the administration of parole.
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Although oil is easy to be had at present, we should never take acasualattitudetowards fuel consumption.
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One felt that there was a verycasualattitudeto some of the instructions which passed from the control to the aircraft.
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It is not taking acasualattitudetowards these matters; it is curing the faults in co-operation with the manufacturers of the lifts.
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Indeed, they obviously did not examine thecasualattitudeof some members of the judiciary when the perpetrators of such attacks are brought before them.
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This almostcasualattitudewas demonstrated earlier this year when one of the lifts stuck during the rush hour, with 21 passengers jammed together in a space of 7 ft.
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Many of the owners who adopt thiscasualattitudeto their dog will no doubt acquire a new dog, which may well suffer the same fate.
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It represents taking acasualattitude.
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The auctioneer eats his lunch with a verycasualattitude.
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