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picaresque
adjective
(pic-a-resque)
involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction
Examples:
Picaresque novels.
Waifs of the picaresque tradition.
A picaresque hero.
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noirish
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travelogue
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novella
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fable
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seriocomic
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pastiche
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magic realism
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protagonist
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prose
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novelette
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fantastical
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novelistic
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phantasmagoric
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roundelay
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digressions
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overdetermined
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demimonde
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tragicomedy
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dostoevskian
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nabokovian
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meandering
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grand guignol
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stageplay
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rabelaisian
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swiftian
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feydeau
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jamesian
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evocation
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pulpier
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zestily
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italo calvino
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overfamiliar
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pathos
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larky
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mordant
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doubleness
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sentimentalized
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divertingly
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imagistic
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captivatingly
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poeticism
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compendious
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antic
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antihero
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