scalawag

Example Sentences

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Chadha-Patel is ambiguously charming as a scalawag not entirely out for himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Retiree-to-be Robert Redford 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 • Oct. 9, 2018

Caballero, the most prolific scalawag identified by the super-recognizers to date, received only four years in prison.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2016

I recall sitting there as Starr, his blue eyes owlish, his skin pink and dimpled, sat before Congress and in a sonorous I-say-this-more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger tone, pounced light as a cat on a scalawag president.

From New York Times • May 26, 2016

“What you thinking, child? Can’t you see you parading ’round with us is telling every scalawag twixt here and Carol-liney, ‘All what stands twixt you and three thousand dollar is this dumb o’ergrowed sharecropper?’

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis