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picaresque
adjective
- of, like, or having to do with sharp-witted vagabonds or rogues
- designating or characteristic of a kind of fiction that originated in Spain and deals episodically with the adventures of a hero who is or resembles such a vagabond or rogue
See picaresque in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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