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  • a  characteristic of pirates
    piratical attackers
  • a  characteristic of piracy
    piratical editions of my book

  • It's nice to see Depp, an actor who can do almost anything and who dares even more than he can do, radiate a demure if manly innocence instead of his usual piratical allure.
  • He was so good, doing, as he confessed, his imitation of the piratical Keith Richards, that he grabbed the reviews that brought in, as an unexpected increment, a crowd of grown .
  • King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money.
News & Articles

  • The new scourges of the sea: Nigerian pirates
    Somalia—once a hotbed of piratical unrest—is quickly losing its title to Nigeria. This year more than three times as many pirate attacks have occurred in the Gulf of Guinea, off West Africa, as in the ...
    June 18, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • Friedrich Nietzsche in Economist
    MERCHANT and pirate were for a long period one and the same person,wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. "Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality."

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