Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
piratical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Piratical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
piratical .
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Examples
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For 20 minutes, we stood by a swampy pond, trying to home in on a small fluttering piratic flycatcher in the brambles.
Strange Paradise 2009
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For 20 minutes, we stood by a swampy pond, trying to home in on a small fluttering piratic flycatcher in the brambles.
Strange Paradise 2009
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Over the past few years, there has been a seemingly exponential increase in piracy -- the cruise ship incident was actually the third serious piratic effort off the shores of Somalia that day.
Keith Thomson: A Solution to Somalia's Pirate Problem: More Pirates 2009
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Over the past few years, there has been a seemingly exponential increase in piracy -- the cruise ship incident was actually the third serious piratic effort off the shores of Somalia that day.
Keith Thomson: A Solution to Somalia's Pirate Problem: More Pirates 2009
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It seems Microsoft has been spreading the message amongst teens that they will go to jail if they don't put a stop their piratic habits.
B2fxxx 2008
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This leaves vowels 'a' and 'i' for the next decades, unless we have a return to syllabically coded decades ala the '60s which were the days of smoking 'j's' in which case the 2010s could be the "Rrrrr" decade of piratic upheavals or the "Zzzz Years," the forgotten decade.
Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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Chersonese he and Anaxibius carried on war against each other by the despatch of guerilla or piratic bands across the straits.
Hellenica 2007
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Indeed, this name of Skelt appears so stagey and piratic, that I will adopt it boldly to design these qualities.
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Then out swarm the rats and the Bottomleys and crew, and the ship of human adventure is a horrible piratic affair, a dirty sort of freebooting.
Kangaroo 2004
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They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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