piratic
Example Sentences
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Prime Minister Begin denied a charge by Moscow that Israel was planning a "piratic raid" on Syria.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only rock 'n' roll reached England from the piratic Radio Luxembourg.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the mole alone were upwards of 200 guns, and altogether 500 guns, few being smaller than 24-pounders, defended the piratic city.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
An island is fine enough, in all conscience or piratic unconscientiousness, but an island in a river sounds like the beginning of the greatest adventure story on earth.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
One phase of the submarine war has, indeed, thrown nearly the whole of the American Press into a state of excitement, namely, the piratic exploits of U53 off the coast of New England.
From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von
