buccaneering

While Basel cannot be described as buccaneering it took a long time before they were pinned down and United were indifferent in midfield.

Basel 2-1 Manchester United | Champions League Group C match report 2011

Joss liked good clothes and he wore them well, but nothing could totally disguise what her grandfather had described as his buccaneering quality; that arrogant maleness that no amount of city suiting could tame.

Lovers Touch Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989

RBS recovers in, what, three to five years, it's not going to be the same kind of buccaneering, high-risk enterprise it has been for the past decade. ndm

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

So at last "buccaneering," as it had come to be generically called, ceased to pay the vast dividends that it had done at first.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882

So at last "buccaneering," as it had come to be generically called, ceased to pay the vast dividends that it had done at first.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882

Today, we play with pirate talk and its mythical lore as a means of stepping into the important performance role of a buccaneering jester.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech.

Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen 2011

Indeed, were it not for the spirited counterattack of the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose buccaneering charge from down the order breathed some life back into a body that was on the point of expiring, the game might already be beyond the reach of India.

India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report 2011

But it's true a patch does bestow a buccaneering air on, for example, Snake Plissken, or Bond villain Emilio Largo, or Les Amants du Pont-Neuf's Michèle Juliet Binoche who goes one-eyed water-skiing down the Seine.

Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch 2011

I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech.

Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen 2011