Picaresque

[,pɪkə'resk] or [,pɪkə'rɛsk]

Definition

(adj.) involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; 'picaresque novels'; 'waifs of the picaresque tradition'; 'a picaresque hero' .

Typist: Willie--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

Typed by Elinor