How do you use Picaresque in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like dishonest or dishonorable, plus the exact meaning.
Picaresque in a sentence
Picaresque meaning
- Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues.
- Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.
Synonyms of Picaresque
Using Picaresque
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues. | Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.
- Useful related words include: dishonest, dishonorable.
- In the example corpus, picaresque often appears in combinations such as: the picaresque, picaresque novel.
Context around Picaresque
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Picaresque
- In this selection, "picaresque" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 1884, novel, prior and western stand out and add context to how "picaresque" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a picaresque hero which and been called picaresque and was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "picaresque" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with picaresque
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The crooks, the hacks, the pols that fill the early years of Barrett’s copy, they are picaresque nearly. (19 words)
In fiction * The picaresque novel Rinconete y Cortadillo by Miguel de Cervantes takes place in the city of Seville. (19 words)
As with other trickster figures, the coyote acts as a picaresque hero which rebels against social convention through deception and humor. (21 words)
By Gustave Doré Don Quixote, Part One contains a number of stories which do not directly involve the two main characters, but which are narrated by some of the picaresque figures encountered by the Don and Sancho during their travels. (40 words)
Back home in Stowe, she pivoted to writing and photography, at first drawing on all those memories from that picaresque prior decade, penning articles in publications like National Geographic, the New York Times and Outside. (35 words)
The picaroon strain, already made familiar in Spain through the Picaresque novels of Lazarillo de Tormes and his successors, appears in one or another of them, especially in the Rinconete y Cortadillo. (32 words)
Example sentences (12)
Back home in Stowe, she pivoted to writing and photography, at first drawing on all those memories from that picaresque prior decade, penning articles in publications like National Geographic, the New York Times and Outside.
Everett retells Mark Twain’s 1884 picaresque novel about a 13-year-old boy’s escapades on the Mississippi from the perspective of runaway slave Jim.
In this picaresque Western from French director Jacques Audiard, the Sisters (yes, that’s their surname) brothers are small-time bounty hunters bullet-dodging their way across the Northwest.
The crooks, the hacks, the pols that fill the early years of Barrett’s copy, they are picaresque nearly.
Another popular form was a collection of jests, jokes and funny situations attributed to a single character in a more connected, narrative form of the picaresque novel.
As with other trickster figures, the coyote acts as a picaresque hero which rebels against social convention through deception and humor.
By Gustave Doré Don Quixote, Part One contains a number of stories which do not directly involve the two main characters, but which are narrated by some of the picaresque figures encountered by the Don and Sancho during their travels.
In fiction * The picaresque novel Rinconete y Cortadillo by Miguel de Cervantes takes place in the city of Seville.
Knapp, p. 119 His last novel, a suspenseful and picaresque work entitled The O'Ruddy, was finished posthumously by Robert Barr and published in 1903.
Originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction, it ended up being more of a picaresque tale.
The film has been called " picaresque ", and was one of the earliest " road movies " which inspired variations on its theme by other filmmakers.
The picaroon strain, already made familiar in Spain through the Picaresque novels of Lazarillo de Tormes and his successors, appears in one or another of them, especially in the Rinconete y Cortadillo.
Common combinations with picaresque
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: