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buccaneering

noun as in piracy

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To him, Churchill “was radical precisely because he was conservative” and “essentially a buccaneering Victorian Whig.”

It was always reluctant to discourage the buccaneering trade, which it knew to be very lucrative.

He may be bound for the South Seas with some crazy, wild notion of a free-and-easy buccaneering life.

To fill the pocketbook, to provide soldiers for wars, or to afford opportunities for buccaneering expeditions, were all the same.

They wanted to know where the Buccaneer would have been if, in his fine old Buccaneering days, he had been so hampered.

Buccaneering in the Edgware Road, even when it is bathed in the morning sun, soon falls flat in November.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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