0 behaving in a brave and exciting way, especially like a fighter in the past:
The players displayed a swashbuckling confidence.
The swashbuckling sense conveyed by the term 'sovereign artificer' may have to be softened somewhat.
This is stimulating, occasionally swashbuckling, stuff.
We are told that it was not the facts themselves, it was the tone—so truculent, so swashbuckling, so provocative.
If cricket is to mean a swashbuckling performance for 40 overs for each side, then cricket as many understand and love it will soon die.
Attempts are sometimes made to portray the mercenary as a swashbuckling, adventurous and romantic figure.
We saw a swashbuckling advocate of a coup de main to whom the end always justifying the means.
It was not only a vigorous, but in some ways a swashbuckling and irresponsible speech that he made.
I do not mean the swashbuckling imperialism of a bygone age.
