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You come across certain words you only ever really read in magazine articles and nobody uses in everyday conversation. I can remember when a computer journalist discovered what 'ubiquitous' meant and after that it was present everywhere. Just came across picaresque in my tv guide. Seen it times but never looked it up before. It sums up Thief in one word... :laugh:

 

picaresque

 

1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.

2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

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Clandestine.

 

That's a good one.

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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picaresque

 

1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.

2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

 

3. A 2005 album by The Decemberists.

"We were travelling in the night of first ages, of those ages that are gone, leaving hardly a sign — and no memories" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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You come across certain words you only ever really read in magazine articles and nobody uses in everyday conversation. I can remember when a computer journalist discovered what 'ubiquitous' meant and after that it was present everywhere. Just came across picaresque in my tv guide. Seen it times but never looked it up before. It sums up Thief in one word... :laugh:

 

picaresque

 

1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.

2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

 

Taffer

I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather.

 

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picaresque

 

1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers.

2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

 

picaroon: a thief, pirate, or pirate-ship

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