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What is the adjective for pirating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pirate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

piratical
  1. Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
  2. (ornithology) Of a bird, practising kleptoparasitism.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “American directors sported piratical eye-patches and had difficulty with rolling tobacco.”
      “A hefty Pallas's gull, may cast a glacial eye at them, winging slowly past, its intentions piratical.”
      “Bronwyn is tall, blonde, willowy, already a great beauty, while Ian is darkly bearded, almost piratical.”
pirate
  1. Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The scoundrel sold me a pirate copy of the original.”
piratelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a pirate.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The iconic patch, worn to cover an eye lost to a childhood hockey accident, that had given him a villainous, piratelike air in his New York years was gone.”
      “He had a piratelike gold tooth in the deepness of his mouth, which Jason once glimpsed in the cafeteria line when the guy tossed his head back and laughed.”
piratic
  1. Alternative form of piratical
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  3. Examples:
    1. “An investigation was held and they found out at least thirty of Yarmouth's ships had been involved in piratic activities.”
      “People now can be hardcore ninja dwarves, or err towards the piratic side of elfdom.”
      “They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism.”
piratable
  1. Able to be pirated.
pirated
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