Antonyms for swashbuckling


Grammar : Adj, noun, verb
Spell : swosh-buhk-ling, swawsh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈswɒʃˌbʌk lɪŋ, ˈswɔʃ-


Definition of swashbuckling

Origin :
  • 1690s, adjective formed from swashbuckler.
  • As in dashing : adj bold, flamboyant
  • As in flamboyant : adj extravagant, theatrical
  • As in piracy : noun robbery
  • As in swagger : verb show off; walk pompously
Example sentences :
  • Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?
  • Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He sought to make up in swashbuckling and boasting what he lacked in courage.
  • Extract from : « Connie Morgan in the Fur Country » by James B. Hendryx
  • "You don't look like a fire-eating, swashbuckling party to me," he said.
  • Extract from : « West Wind Drift » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • I rather fancy I'm a better man for having been a swashbuckling boy.
  • Extract from : « West Wind Drift » by George Barr McCutcheon
  • And if rip-roaring, swashbuckling, drunken glory is what he is after, he gets it.
  • Extract from : « The Blazed Trail » by Stewart Edward White
  • Her plots have been but sugared nonsense, or swashbuckling ups and downs.
  • Extract from : « The Art Of The Moving Picture » by Vachel Lindsay
  • The fashion now is for swashbuckling tales with a haze of powder smoke rising to high heaven.
  • Extract from : « The Lure of the Dim Trails » by by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
  • The little tinselled figure, looking taller in its swashbuckling habits, stared at him defiantly.
  • Extract from : « The King of Schnorrers » by Israel Zangwill
  • There is a man who is certainly no swashbuckling novelist of the Wardour Street school.
  • Extract from : « Literature in the Making » by Various
  • The swashbuckling Jack Altshuler had know his many times commander even better than Cogswell had realized.
  • Extract from : « Frigid Fracas » by Dallas McCord Reynolds

Synonyms for swashbuckling

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