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Swashbuckling   /swˈɑʃbˌəklɪŋ/   Listen
Swashbuckling

noun
1.
Flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior.
adjective
1.
Flamboyantly adventurous.  Synonym: swaggering.





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"Swashbuckling" Quotes from Famous Books



... who stood before me now. Self-confidence seemed to ooze from the fellow's every pore. His face was flushed, there was a jovial light in his eyes, the lips were parted in a swashbuckling smile. And when with a genial hand he sloshed me on the back before I could sidestep, it was as if I had been kicked ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... the great city which I felt, suggested to me that our swashbuckling friend might help us if he would. "Do you know M. de Pavannes?" I asked impulsively, "Where he lives in ...
— The House of the Wolf - A Romance • Stanley Weyman
... swashbuckling, drunken glory is what he is after, he gets it. The only trouble is, that a whole winter's hard work goes in two or three weeks. The only redeeming feature is, that he is never, in or out of his cups, afraid of anything that ...
— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White


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