Buccaneering

While Basel cannot be described as buccaneering it took a long time before they were pinned down and United were indifferent in midfield. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Joss liked good clothes and he wore them well, but nothing could totally disguise what her grandfather had described as his buccaneering quality; that arrogant maleness that no amount of city suiting could tame. ❋ Jordan, Penny, 1946- (1989)

RBS recovers in, what, three to five years, it's not going to be the same kind of buccaneering, high-risk enterprise it has been for the past decade. ndm ❋ Unknown (2009)

So at last "buccaneering," as it had come to be generically called, ceased to pay the vast dividends that it had done at first. ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)

Today, we play with pirate talk and its mythical lore as a means of stepping into the important performance role of a buccaneering jester. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

But it's true a patch does bestow a buccaneering air on, for example, Snake Plissken, or Bond villain Emilio Largo, or Les Amants du Pont-Neuf's Michèle Juliet Binoche who goes one-eyed water-skiing down the Seine. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Indeed, were it not for the spirited counterattack of the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose buccaneering charge from down the order breathed some life back into a body that was on the point of expiring, the game might already be beyond the reach of India. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's not exactly an example of the virtues of buccaneering private enterprise. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They share the belief that a potent combination of speed, force, and nerve — a buccaneering willingness to cast aside doubt, seize the levers of government, and apply its full power — can halt financial panics. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Indeed, the word 'media' started only to be ultra-commonly used (in preference to 'the press' or the quaintly British 'fourth estate') once the buccaneering Aussie had daringly launched Sky TV in Britain in 1989, bought into Twentieth Century Fox (in 1984), launched the Fox News Channel (in 1996), and bought what became Harper Collins (in 1989). ❋ Colin Morrison (2011)

I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech. ❋ Unknown (2011)

West Indies, however, with a smattering of thirtysomethings making their last hurrahs – Roy Fredericks, Rohan Kanhai, Vanburn Holder and Keith Boyce – tackled the new game with the peacock strut of Vivian Richards at cover point and the languid buccaneering of Clive Lloyd at the crease. ❋ Unknown (2011)

U.S. regulators' lawsuit over alleged manipulation of crude-oil prices in 2008 has shone a spotlight on a shipping tycoon whose risky bets, shrewd investments and buccaneering style have made him Norway's richest man. ❋ Guy Chazan (2011)

U.S. allegations of oil-market manipulation in 2008 have shone a light on John Fredrikson, a shipping tycoon whose risky bets, shrewd investments and buccaneering style have made him Norway's richest man. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think it's great that the Buccaneers' have [changed] [DCA] into [DCI]! ❋ Maytag And Puma (2008)

[Henry] [Morgan] is the most [famous] buccaneer ❋ Caster89 (2007)

[Quinn] is a buccaneer ❋ Part One (2004)

[I just] buccaneered her [last night] ❋ Mike (2004)

[Dez] [tricked] me into coming to school in [fancy dress], the slimy buccaneer. ❋ Vinny_R (2008)

Girl 1: Hey Sarah [what's wrong] with your [eye]? Girl 2: Oh I just got [Buccaneer'd] last night ❋ Royal Blak (2009)

[Tridge] is a buccaneer ❋ Tridgeinator (2021)

The [buccaneers] at that Starbucks know my order [by heart]. [Hullo], I'd like to pick up an application to be a buccaneer. ❋ C.A.D.'79 (2007)

[Brian] is [known] around [work] as a butt buccaneer. ❋ Tv1827 (2010)

Now that Pirate [Bay] is down the Digital [Buccaneers] will have to go [elsewhere]. ❋ Captain Beta (2009)