scallywag
a variant of scalawag.
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How to use scallywag in a sentence
It is better Desmond should become a priest than die a scallywag—and it will keep him out of the way of that Sylvia Custance.
Grey Town | Gerald BaldwinIn regard to Kostolo, the Greek was a low scallywag, but not culpable.
She Stands Accused | Victor MacClureThe fact remained that Paragot, the hairy disreputable scallywag, had relations with a high born and beautiful woman.
The Belovd Vagabond | William J. LockeHe was no scapegrace or scallywag such as you might find nowadays crowing over his sins in Chelsea.
The Art of Letters | Robert LyndFor I thought it was right she should know that you werent just a scallywag private soldier like the rest of us.
The Rough Road | William John Locke
British Dictionary definitions for scallywag
/ (ˈskælɪˌwæɡ) /
informal a scamp; rascal
(after the US Civil War) a White Southerner who supported the Republican Party and its policy of Black emancipation. Scallywags were viewed as traitors by their fellow Southerners
Origin of scallywag
1- Also called: scalawag, scallawag
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