Piracy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PIRACY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• robbery on the high seas
• the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.
• a practice similar to piracy but in other contexts, especially hijacking
• robbery on the seas
• The act or crime of a pirate.
• Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
• hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it
• the act of plagiarizing; taking someone\'s words or ideas as if they were your own
• the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work

Words related to PIRACY

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Words that contain PIRACY

biopiracy18 antipiracy17 conspiracy19 counterconspiracy28

How to use PIRACY in a sentence

• They had no book in the Bath shop on piracy in Cornwall.
• It was not in any sense an act of war, but mere and open piracy, killing for the love of killing.
• Is there anything that was not tried to suppress piracy? The pirates were persecuted like wild beasts.
• Finally, the English, French, and Dutch agreed to act in concert to suppress piracy, and signed bonds by which they jointly engaged to make good all future losses.
• While Kidd lay in Newgate awaiting trial, an Act was passed for the more effectual suppression of piracy.
• Persian Gulf piracy continued to flourish till 1835, when it was brought to an end by a happy combination of arms and diplomacy.
• But all of them left, as we did, the principle of piracy or payments as they found it.
• It was an additional emphasis on the position that the submarine campaign as conducted by Germany was simply piracy and had no standing in international law.
• It paved the way for culture, it subdued the piracy which had existed in the Baltic, and it promoted a universal peace.
• The North River gang are said to own a fine schooner, in which they cruise along the Hudson almost to Albany, and carry on a system of piracy at the river towns.
• I feel stronger in my piracy than in my seamanship.
• Hanged for piracy at Newport, Rhode Island, on July 19th, 1723.
• Tried for piracy in June, 1704, at the Star Tavern in Boston.
• In the year 1723, at the age of 15, he was tried for piracy at Newport, Rhode Island.
• Tried in New York for piracy and found guilty and condemned to death.
• Arrested for piracy in 1564 for having captured a Flemish ship.
• Tried for piracy at Charleston in 1718, and hanged at White Point on November 8th, and buried in the marsh below low-water mark.
• This Welsh pirate had been a man of good position, education, and property before he took to piracy, which he did for the love of the life and not from necessity.
• This man must not be confused with one Bernado de Soto, who was tried for piracy at Boston in 1834.
• The call of piracy at length proving irresistible, he sailed before the mast with Captain Halsey, then returned to his native wife and home, shortly afterwards to die of fever.
• He later on took to piracy and ended a not too glorious career by being hanged at Eastman, Massachusetts.
• By various statutes in England and the United States, other offences are made piracy.
• In England by the act of parliament passed March 31, 1824, the slave trade is also declared to be piracy.
• By the law of nations, the taking of goods by piracy does not divest the actual owner of them.
• Piracy is every where pursued and punished with death, and pirates can gain no rights by conquest.
• Now shall the ocean, as thy Thames, be free From both those fates, of storms and piracy.
• Vessels of the United States found engaged in the African slave trade are guilty of piracy under the acts of Congress.
• Time came when the trade was put under the ban of law and made akin to piracy.
• The officers, agents, and lawyers are not included in the new case, and so there is no danger of any of them having to pay the penalty of piracy, which the law says is hanging.

Similar words containing PIRA without suffix cy

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