| 单词 | picaresque |
| 释义 | picaresque (once / 23359 pages) adj Use the adjective picaresque to describe your favorite kind of story, if it involves characters having exciting, dangerous adventures. A picaresque novel features clever adventurers, often poor but spunky heroes who live by their wits and come out ahead in the end. This kind of book first became popular in Spain in the 1500s. Well known authors, including Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, later used a picaresque style for some of their work. It's easy to confuse picaresque, "rascally," with its near sound-alike, picturesque, or "lovely to look at." WORD FAMILYpicaresque: picaresquely USAGE EXAMPLESHis picaresque novel G won the Booker prize in 1972. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Droll and fanciful, it is a picaresque tale with a mischievously understated attitude. New York Times(Oct 13, 2016) After a long apprenticeship, an American picaresque that encompassed a flop in California, he was signed by Columbia Records. Economist(Sep 27, 2016) adj involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction picaresque novels waifs of the picaresque tradition a picaresque hero Syn dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive |
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