Definitions
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- adverb In a
picaresque manner
Etymologies
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picaresque + -ly
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Examples
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His books were picaresquely post-modern and his humour was Marxian (tendance: Groucho).
The Perfect Literary Storm Mark 2006
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Henri de la Fontaine Coq, picaresquely amused but looking pale as if he had been badly shaken by the crash, sat watching Dorje, leaning backward against a rough-hewn post that supported a roof beam.
Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931
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