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scallywag

[ UK /skˈɔːlɪwˌæɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. one who is playfully mischievous
  2. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
  3. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

How To Use scallywag In A Sentence

  • I also know that if any of these so-called scallywags of the public eye were to sit down and have a one to one conversation with me - they wouldn't last a minute.
  • The problem with the young scallywags of today is that they don't have any respect for their elders and betters.
  • The problem with the young scallywags of today is that they don't have any respect for their elders and betters.
  • And the owner of the property was no doubt a scallywag, trying to defraud the lessee of his money, and threatening to ‘throw [his] things on the street’.
  • And I still will do this, because scallywags and tellers of tall tales though some of 'em may be, them's my buddies.
  • Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
  • She said: ‘He always wanted what he called his scallywags around him, and he had them at the end.’
  • Diouf, you see, is a slightly temperamental chap who has been known to spit at the odd football supporter and scallywag ballboy when he is placed in a state of fear and alarm. Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
  • Ultimately any potential investors considering PETE SUMARUCK as a possible recipient of their hard-earned funds will be forced to rethink any notions of trusting such a scurrilous back-alley scallywag, slanderous liar, and unprincipled con-artist with any investments of any sort! Peter Sumaruck II
  • Any scallywag could have lifted my letters out hoping to find something of value.
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