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As his energetic, expansive presence suggests, the piratically goateed González Iñárritu is no gently contemplative chamber-drama auteur.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2016

Philip Lynott, 1949–1986, singer-bassist, long of leg, long of jaw, singular smoky eye peeping piratically from beneath a lopsided Afro, is not generally counted among the top literary men of his city.

From Slate • May 28, 2013

The circumstances are precisely those which I imagine would be deemed highly favourable by people piratically inclined.”

From The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" by Overend, William Heysham

Pope had printed his own correspondence, and had tricked Curll into publishing the book piratically, whilst the public was quite prepared to believe that Curll had performed a new piratical feat.

From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The sonnets were piratically published in a quarto volume in 1609.

From William Shakespeare by Masefield, John