scalawag

Example Sentences

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In this telling, Black Americans were dismissed as unprepared for the tasks of self-government and cast as props for regimes dominated by northern “carpetbaggers” and southern “scalawags.”

From Washington Post

And it’s of the utmost importance to be well-versed in bad words such as “scurvy dog,” “old salt” and “scalawag.”

From Washington Post

Curiously, however, he uses the old vocabulary of disdain, designating pro-Reconstruction Southern whites as “scalawags” and pro-Reconstruction Northerners as “carpetbaggers,” just as their enemies styled them.

From The New Yorker

At 82, the retiree-to-be returns one last time to playing a good-hearted scalawag in the mode of the Sundance Kid and the flimflam man he portrayed in “The Sting.”

From Seattle Times

Two days after Mr. Rafael’s death, the president praised the national police for “cleansing the organization of scalawags” and for instituting what he said were reforms among its ranks.

From New York Times