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scalawag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | scallywag |
| Type of | bad person |
Examples of scalawag
scalawag
He was an award-winning author, raconteur, chef and all-round scalawag.
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Owen Wilson plays another charming scalawag in this doggone amusing film.
From the washingtonpost.com
He's more a scalawag than a renegade, and there's no yearning sexual heat in his almost-romance with Grace.
From the kentucky.com
She stood back and regarded him with tight-lipped, mild reproach, like a mother gazing upon an unbiddable, scalawag son.
From the nytimes.com
Yet there is a tiny whiffy of The Man Without a Country around the nation's most prominent political scalawag.
From the time.com
We also use idiot and scalawag.
From the time.com
Brackets of competing words like like whirligig and scalawag and zydeco and angina have faced off in a gradually narrowing contest over the course of months.
From the economist.com
Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha is an imaginary county that contains nearly all one needs to know about the old South, the Lost Cause and the rise of the scalawag class.
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- A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- Rogue: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- Imp: one who is playfully mischievous
- In United States history, scalawag was a nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.
- (Scalawags) Southern white Republicans during Reconstruction, they came from every class and had a variety~motives but were pictured by their opponents as ignorant and degraded.
- (Scalawags) Southerners who sided with the blacks and carpetbaggers.
- (Scalawags) a native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction, often for personal gain.
- Scalawags were white southern Republicans--mainly small landowning farmers and well-off merchants and planters--who cooperated with the congressionally imposed Reconstruction governments set up under the Reconstruction Acts for diverse reasons.
