Sentence examples for scallywag from inspiring English sources

Despite the occasional scallywag, this lively account of largely forgotten men comes down heavily in favour of the latter proposition.

Tricks used by unscrupulous eBayers Keep your wits about you: most scammers won't be as obvious as the occasional scallywag roaming eBay offering to pay via Western Union for goods that they'd like shipping to Lagos.

In the friskily hyperbolic words of a review by Walter Robinson, the editor of Artnet Magazine, the show "takes the reprobate scallywag nihilists of the contemporary avant-garde and converts them... into goody-two-shoes bleeding-heart believers in the nobility of humankind".

When mounted police put a crowd of workers to flight, Barnet shows a scallywag shaking off the law, comforting a nervous maiden, then turning round, in closeup, to give us a wicked wink.

Why he should have humored them — Robert, to judge from Affleck's portrayal, was a cross between a scallywag and a creep — is anyone's guess, but he did, and he paid the price.

"Those scallywag owners need to recognize that underneath it all, mascots are people, too".

AMERICA today is not short of corporate scallywags.

The Beatles were boys from the neighborhood, four Liverpool scallywags you might have known from the local coffee bar or have gone to school with (an unlikely number of Liverpudlians of a certain age routinely claim they did).

Because the hazard of genealogical research isn't that you'll find scallywags, rapscallions and miscreants in your family tree; it's that you'll find a bunch of ordinary folks, which as the mania for genealogy spreads will make you death at parties.

Kid-friendly vernacular gambols alongside nostalgic turns of phrase ("You and I are scallywags. / Let us plan a caper!").

There may (yet) be no walls around them but they are, in effect, governing Libya through the various Libyan heroes and scallywags who have set themselves up as local political masters.