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UK
/swˈɒʃbəklˌɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈswɑʃˌbəkɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈswɑʃˌbəkɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- flamboyantly adventurous
NOUN
- flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior
How To Use swashbuckling In A Sentence
- Thus disintegrating Entreri's ideas about the weakness of the swashbuckling technique.
- Expect swashbuckling fun including music, pantomime and storytelling, plus parrot workshops and puppet shows. Times, Sunday Times
- What she was neglecting to realise was the simple fact that being a pirate is awesome and some serious swashbuckling skills would definitely help on my next voyage across the high seas. Hello, I’m five years old | Johnny B. Truant
- The swashbuckling feline joins forces with a cunning thief when he goes on a quest for a magical golden goose. The Sun
- Holding a joypad has rarely felt so swashbuckling. The Guide's best games of 2011
- Well, he was very tall and strong and swashbuckling with a big black moustache curled up in a spiral at each end.
- There's something kind of romantic about it all, a swashbuckling director.
- Or you could go swashbuckling in "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island," where Captain Flint was "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Books With Strong Male Characters
- The result of this majestic writing spree is the swashbuckling tale of heroic Prince Rama and his allies, and their universe-rattling battle with the villainous demon king Totsakan and his unruly cohorts.
- He was a tall, handsome, kind of swashbuckling, enchanting man, and he definitely held sway over the boy. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003