They scanned the horizon for the skull and crossbones and other signs of piratical activity.
He had nearly been captured by a large and well-armed piratical vessel.
He's a nice man, for all his piratical looks and a missing front tooth.
No doubt some of your contributors or readers can chart the course of this piratical voyage.
There are the fitting yards where these, dastardly and piratical submarines return for repairs and revictualment.
They have complained more than once of the effect of piratical broadcasting on their own wavelengths, on their own transmissions.
The convention is not the product of a piratical or exploitative design by a series of rapacious mining companies.
However, it should be realised that this piratical damage is not only restricted to developed countries but is also to be found in developing countries.
