pirate
noun
a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
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
Its climax depicts an air battle between the Albatross, the piratical Robur’s flying machine, and a huge, state-of-the art balloon called the Go-Ahead.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017
An example was dangling from his own piratical beard.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2015
So considerable an amount of alarm had been caused by piratical adventurers on the coasts of Scotland, that King James was in 1614 urgently requested to send some royal ships there.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper
