swashbuckling

Word Origin & History

1690s, adjective formed from swashbuckler.

Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?

He sought to make up in swashbuckling and boasting what he lacked in courage.

"You don't look like a fire-eating, swashbuckling party to me," he said.

I rather fancy I'm a better man for having been a swashbuckling boy.

And if rip-roaring, swashbuckling, drunken glory is what he is after, he gets it.

Her plots have been but sugared nonsense, or swashbuckling ups and downs.

The fashion now is for swashbuckling tales with a haze of powder smoke rising to high heaven.

The little tinselled figure, looking taller in its swashbuckling habits, stared at him defiantly.

There is a man who is certainly no swashbuckling novelist of the Wardour Street school.

The swashbuckling Jack Altshuler had know his many times commander even better than Cogswell had realized.

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