picaro

Definitions

Examples

• Master Reynard, in that romance of the Middle Ages of which he is the hero, is something like a picaro.

• The picaro was the fungus which grew out of this mass of corruption.

• Most of them on leaving the Court uttered some invective against "the picaro who had sworn their lives away."

• There was enough of the “picaro” in his countenance, to inspire me with confidence that he could be suborned for my purpose.

• On this waste, and out of this rottenness, fattened and throve exceedingly the rank weed picaro.