The rate book has been pretty well destroyed already by piratical hauliers who have very little regard for any principles.
I have no doubt the piratical instincts of some of the islands are still active.
But bids and counter bids, plots and counter plots, predatory and piratical raids and forays are manifestly not the way to go about it.
They fear that the publishers may avoid all responsibility for the deliberate wrongdoings of their piratical authors.
They are piratical; they are illegal, unrecognised and contrary to the law of nations.
It is a very piratical thing to do, if he will forgive me for saying so.
She was not carrying contraband or running any blockade, and in the absence of the granting of belligerent rights her seizure was piratical.
They have also drawn attention, with the grim tales of piratical attacks, to the plight and vulnerability of those fleeing from oppression.
