piratical

With the thin, vertical scar down his right cheek, the general effect was faintly piratical.

Tryphon was the cause of originating among the Cilicians a piratical confederacy.

At the extremity of the Taurus is Olympus a mountain,251 the piratical hold of Zenicetus, and a fortress of the same name.

I do not wish to see a new Barbary rising in America, and our long extended coast occupied by piratical States.

About this time, several piratical vessels had succeeded in cutting off a number of merchantmen near the coast of Brazil.

With the thoughtlessness of youth Foster had never troubled his mind much about the piratical city of Algiers.