swashbuckling

The swashbuckling efforts of Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, have landed him on the cover of Time.

What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds.

Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?

His face was flushed, there was a jovial light in his eyes, the lips were parted in a swashbuckling smile.

Not the swashbuckling kind of Americanism—the chip-on-the-shoulder kind—the we-can-lick-the-world kind.

They are by no means the swashbuckling, bullying, dissolute companions painted by those who know nothing about them.