Examples of 'piratical' in a sentence
Meaning of "piratical"
piratical (adjective): Piratical refers to activities or characteristics associated with pirates, such as robbery, violence, or lawlessness at sea
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- Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
- Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.
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The piratical and predatory habits of birds.
Commissioning private vessels for seizure of piratical vessels.
His colourful piratical career may very likely be exaggerated.
With regards to piratical acts.
The piratical imperialist war.
Reported to be a base of piratical operations.
The piratical history and current appetite for art endear visitors and locals alike.
Punishment of piratical acts.
Many junks were fitted out with carronades and other weapons for naval or piratical uses.
I seem to recall that you piratical types have a bit of a soft spot for shiny things.
I think that America in general is piratical.
And so ended the piratical history of Madagascar.
The piratical imperialist war is the beginning of civil war throughout Europe.
He also engaged in piratical raids on Attica.
The piratical acts of English privateers.
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This was effective in quelling threats of piratical acts against merchant shipping in the Mediterranean.
The Venetians urged Ferdinand to prevent further piratical actions.
A year or two into his piratical career he was shipwrecked near Campeche in Mexico.
Operations against renewed Muslim piratical raids.
The Illyrians piratical career reached its zenith under Queen Teuta.
The accumulating evidence points to a more piratical than pietical Vatican Bank.
Piratical ventures were profitable ; colonisation was not.
It appears that Blackbeard began his piratical career under the command of Benjamin Hornigold.
In other cases, children may volunteer to participate in piratical activities.
These Slavs revived the old Illyrian piratical habits and often raided the Adriatic Sea.
This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of.
Just what is going on in that piratical mind of yours?
He was no piratical extrovert, no swashbuckler.
It 's all part and parcel of my piratical plan.
She quietly patronised the piratical exploits of John Hawkins and later his cousin Francis Drake.
But the tanker 's crew were opposed to the strike and their captain 's piratical action.
He 's sure it was a piratical performance.
Piratical skuas and gulls cash in on the penguins ' hard work.
We must protect our economies from piratical and slave-labour economies.
In his eyes, all of Charles Hunter's privateering expeditions appear to be piratical ventures.
A papier mache finger bob, wards against piratical junglist radio signals, transmitted by the deranged.
Some offer opportunities for trade or obtaining information, but others have piratical or hostile intentions.
A pa pier mache finger bob, wards against piratical junglist radio signals, transmitted by the deranged.
Well, I have done some pretty appalling things in my piratical career.
Consequently, enterprising merchants of the piratical sort ignored the imposed monopoly and illegally imported tea.
However, the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates does not think she 's been acting very piratical.
With regards to piratical acts " by American ships on the high seas.
Murchadh's capture could have been associated with otherwise unrecorded piratical activity or gallowglass operations.
He exterminated a Bugis piratical settlement, which had become established at Keratong in the river Rompin.
Submarines where regarded as dishonourable, and, indeed, piratical.
In that ship, he destroyed three piratical vessels on the coasts of Cuba and Yucatán.
Piratical ‘ Anglo-Saxon ' capitalism was obviously less effective than.
I mean, I am using this piratical stuff to write a bestselling book.
Naturally, we will not be bystanders " with regards to piratical acts.
Install the Software in any piratical or illegal computer operating systems ( such as Microsoft Windows ).
