Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
scalawag .
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- noun archaic, pejorative Alternative spelling of
scallywag . - noun pejorative Alternative spelling of
scalawag .
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Examples
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Then tonight I’m going to watch the Sense and Sensibility miniseries with John, which should be cool, except that my use of the term scallawag just there has given me a real urge to break out the Mount Gay and watch Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Then tonight I’m going to watch the Sense and Sensibility miniseries with John, which should be cool, except that my use of the term scallawag just there has given me a real urge to break out the Mount Gay and watch Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Indeed I do; and if you dote on the "scallawag" as I dote on him you also will declare that our anonymous poet has not wrought ill.
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Holden was an original secessionist, and his newspaper, the Standard, printed at Raleigh, was the mouth-piece of the Democracy until 1860, when this unblushing "scallawag," as the Southerners call political renegades, threw his Democratic sentiments out at window, and went in for the Union cause.
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"scallawag" as I dote on him you also will declare that our anonymous poet has not wrought ill.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872
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"I don't guess this is any kind of scallawag outfit of toughs which just get around and duff a bunch, and hit the trail for safety till the froth they've raised dies down again.
The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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Marquise, Oriane would marry some one who was not in society, an artist, a fugitive from justice, a scallawag, a free-thinker, that she would pass definitely into the category of what the
The Guermantes Way 2003
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"An 'take care of yourself you -- you big scallawag, you!"
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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"An 'take care of yourself you -- you big scallawag, you!"
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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Dat low-down scallawag what come here wid no 'nouncement ob his' pearance is gwine suffer for dis here axident.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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