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Swashbuckling

noun

Flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior.

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... the marriage he swore vengeance, for this thing had been a sore blow to his pride. All along the three rivers men talked of it, nor did they hesitate to taunt and make sport of Rene to his face. He sought to make up in swashbuckling and boasting what he lacked in courage. So men came to hate him and it became harder and harder for him to obtain work. At last, in great anger, he quit the brigade altogether and for two summers he had been seen upon the rivers in a York boat of his own. The first ...

— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx

... wife and himself had occupied separate continents (on avait fait continent a part, as the French might say) during that period, a Major-General fresh from India, an old flame and constant correspondent, had suddenly swooped down upon the boarding-house in Queen's Gate and, in swashbuckling fashion, had abducted the admirable and unresisting lady. It was a matter of special license, and off went the tardily happy pair to Margate, before we had finished ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke

Words linked to "Swashbuckling" : adventuresome, demeanour, behaviour, behavior, deportment, conduct, demeanor, swaggering, adventurous