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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
- 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
- adventurous
- alert
- animated
- baroque
- bluster
- boast
- bombastic
- bootlegging
- brag
- brandish
- brilliant
- buccaneering
- bully
- camp
- chic
- chichi
- cock
- colorful
- commandeering
- copying
- dapper
- daring
- dashing
- dazzling
- debonair
- elaborate
- elegant
- exciting
- exclusive
- exuberant
- fashionable
- fearless
- flaky
- flaming
- flashy
- florid
- flourish
- freebooting
- gallant
- gasconade
- gassy
- gaudy
- gay
- glamorous
- gloat
- grandstand
- hector
- hijacking
- infringement
- jaunty
- jazzy
- keen
- lively
- look big
- lord
- luscious
- luxuriant
- marauding
- modish
- ornate
- ostentatious
- parade
- parade one's wares
- peacock
- peacockish
- pirating
- plagiarism
- play to the crowd
- plucky
- pontificate
- prance
- pretentious
- put on
- put on airs
- rapine
- resplendent
- rich
- rococo
- rousing
- sashay
- saunter
- showy
- smart
- spirited
- splashy
- sporty
- stealing
- strut
- stylish
- swank
- swashbuckle
- swashbuckling
- sway
- sweep
- swell
- swish
- theft
- vivacious
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