piratic
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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
There is something boisterous and piratic in Burly’s manner of talk which suits well enough with this impression.
From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson
This piratic power having got the dominion and control of all the Mediterranean, there was left no place for navigation or commerce.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
When Iphicrates first reached the Chersonese he and Anaxibius carried on war against each other by the despatch of guerilla or piratic bands across the straits.
From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns
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