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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