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Meanings of swashbuckling in English

Flamboyantly adventurous.

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Usage of swashbuckling in English
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Instead they were swept aside, the latest victims of City's swashbuckling approach.
The Guardian
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Judge Bragg played an open, swashbuckling game, as if he enjoyed it.
Alas, Babylon
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On one hand, you have to admire this kind of swashbuckling attitude.
Wired
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Himself a rapper of swashbuckling swagger, he gets a solo record deal.
Ebony
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Baxter was living out those romantic notions of the swashbuckling Scottish hero.
The Guardian
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Huw Powell: I will help you survive this swashbuckling day.
The Guardian
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They did not chase the goals they needed in swashbuckling fashion.
The Guardian
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Palmerstown finally buckled under the intense pressure of a swashbuckling performance.
The Irish Times
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Jurgen Klopp's swashbuckling side blew City away in a supreme first half salvo.
The South African
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He was the swashbuckling hero determined to shake up the Department of Education.
The Irish Times
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So when Winkleman came swashbuckling up the hill M'tela was prepared.
The Leopard Woman
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Nickerson proceeds with a tale that is as catastrophic as it is swashbuckling.
The Irish Times
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His life was a model for Harold Robbins's swashbuckling 1974 novel The Pirate.
The Guardian
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I rather fancy I'm a better man for having been a swashbuckling boy.
West Wind Drift
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Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?
The Tavern Knight
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Not the swashbuckling kind of Americanism-thechip-on-the-shoulder kind-thewe-can-lick-the-world kind.
The Story of The American Legion: The Birth of the Legion
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