picaresque

pic·a·resque  (pk-rsk, pk-)

adj.

1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.

2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

n.

One that is picaresque.

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[French, from Spanish picaresco, from pícaro, picaro; see picaro.]

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picaresque

Adjective

of or relating to a type of fiction in which the hero, a rogue, goes through a series of episodic adventures [Spanish pícaro a rogue]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

picaresque - involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero" dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive