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Definition of Scallawags
1. scallawag [n] - See also: scallawag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scallawags
Literary usage of Scallawags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War by Frank Alexander Montgomery (1901)
"... General Alcorn's opinion of right policy—Reconstruction under act of
congress—Negroes voting—Convention, carpetbaggers and scallawags—Our new clerk, ..."
2. A History of the Presidency by Edward Stanwood (1904)
"scallawags were Southern-born men who had braved the social ostracism that followed
their non-conformity to the formula that " this is a white man's ..."
3. The Speaker (1913)
"Do you want all the scallawags to get off?" "It's mostly the scallawags, Faither,
who's ben kind to me," moaned Jimmie. "T'others ha' ben too busy to bother ..."
4. The United Service (1884)
"scallawags were Southern men who accepted the situation and were willing to meet
the Yankees half-way in their efforts to restore confidence and prosperity ..."
5. A Political Crime: The History of the Great Fraud by Albert M. Gibson (1885)
"They did not dare to assume the further responsibility of continuing by military
power the indefensible rule of carpet-baggers and scallawags in Louisiana ..."
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