freebooter

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What the freebooter gains is attention, whether in the form of likes, shares, or new followers for its Facebook page.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2015

A ruthless political freebooter, he played this nationalism for all it was worth�just as he had turned everything else to account in politics, even his enormous red nose.

From Time Magazine Archive

In its policy of getting along with the powers that be, Long Island's fabulously successful harness track, Roosevelt Raceway, would never dream of turning down an influential freebooter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brown's freebooter status stems from a provision of campaign-finance law that allows "independent expenditure" operations -- I.E.s in the trade -- outside normal restrictions on fund raising and spending.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prosecutor Roy St. Lewis called Hale “the ruthless freebooter of death.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann