scalawag in English

noun
1
a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
synonyms:rascalscampmonkeyimpdevilroguehellionrapscallionmonsterterrorhorrorvarmint
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1. Carpetbagger referred to Republicans who had recently migrated from the North; scalawag referred to southern-born radicals

2. Words such as Carpetbagger and scalawag are ideographs, symbolic words so resonant with political imagery and meaning that they influence political behavior.

3. Sure, peddle a few lightning rods, pick up a couple of bucks in a shell game fleece a yokel without even scratching him and you're a scalawag.

4. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags "Carpetbagger" and "scalawag" were derogatory terms used to deride white Republicans from the North or southern-born radicals during Reconstruction.

5. Scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called Carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies