Sentence example with the word 'scalawag'

scalawag

balker, crock, dog, goat, jughead, mischief, precious rascal, roarer, scamp, sneak, villain

Definition n. a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War

Last update: June 7, 2015


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Huckelberry Finn was a scalawag.   [Please select]

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Probably no other southern state suffered equally with Louisiana from the corruption of " carpet-bag," " scalawag," negro legislatures.   [Please select]

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"An' what's more, you old scalawag," said the policeman, "I'm going to run _you_ in."   [Please select]

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I ran off to sea soon after they were married, like the young scalawag I was.   [Please select]

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To hear that scalawag Prendergast talk, he's been Hugh Stires' good angel--the oily hypocrite.   [Please select]

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But most Southerners preferred the rule of the army to the alternative reign of the carpetbagger, scalawag, and Negro.   [Please select]

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The carpetbagger had found that he could control the Negro without the help of the scalawag.   [Please select]

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Almost invariably the scalawag disliked the Leaguer, black or white, and as a political teacher often found himself proscribed by the League.   [Please select]

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