piratical
- a word derived from pirate.
Example Sentences
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Hunt is depicted in fin-de-siècle vest and suit jacket, his debonair mustache giving him a sophisticated, almost piratical air.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
A piratical pastor in a boxcar and two rich, tuxedoed drunks on the same train are like admonitory bookends on the subjects of class and self-determination.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021
By temperament and appearance, Mr. Hinckle was almost piratical.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2016
An example was dangling from his own piratical beard.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2015
"If the defendant was guilty of piracy, so was the complainant; and equity will not protect a pirate from infringements of his piratical work."
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers
