NOUN
- one who is playfully mischievous
- a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
How To Use scalawag In A Sentence
- ‘One would expect such deportment from scalawags, but not you noble nabobs of Wall Street,’ wrote Cannell.
- A "scalawag" if as a Southern born man he votes with the Republicans; a "carpet-bagger" if he comes from the North, no matter how he votes. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
- A scalawag was a Southerner who deserted his political affiliations for the spoils of the Republican party. A slaveholder's daughter,
- `John Henderson is most certainly a scalawag, but I'm surprised to hear you say so. PAINT THE WIND
- You discover the words, “whippersnapper,” “scalawag” and “by-cracky” creeping into your vocabulary. You Know You’re Over The Hill When… « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
- Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests.
- “What are you prattling on about, you chatty old scalawag?” Earl of Durkness
- They had me and the rest of those scrags and scalawags gyrating all over in some sort of fiendish trance!
- Deliver us a white knight, a true and brave soul who can rid us of scoundrels, scalawags and in-it-for-themselves special interests.
- The scalawag was the native white man who made up the middle class of the South; the planter above, the Negro below. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
