scallywag

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Examples of scallywag

  • I said there was always a percentage of scallywags who never contributed to trade unions or anything else.

  • It would mean that every conceivable person, every crook, spy or any sort of scallywag, could come into the country and take up residence here.

  • But what is to prevent some scallywag from losing his licence and asking for a new one?

  • We are regarded as "scallywags," because we have not honoured our obligations.

  • The prisoners there are not stars, not first offenders, but the ordinary prison scallywags.

  • I know that the law is difficult to enforce on scallywags who are determined to evade it.

  • I sympathise with the desire to keep scallywags out of this great industry, but a person may be dubbed a scallywag when he is not.

  • The more liberal the licensing laws of this country, the less reason there will be for scallywags to take advantage of the loopholes.

  • There are always a certain number of scallywags who will contribute nothing.

  • They may be young scallywags, but they surely do not deserve such treatment.

  • The scallywag in every profession has to submit to the withdrawal of his certificate.

  • Which foreign countries regard us as "scallywags"?

  • Which countries are calling this country scallywags?

  • We cannot approach cases in an emotional spasm, or on the basis that the defendant is a scallywag, and the book should be thrown at him.

  • But also we are under a duty not to pass what we have not considered, and not to be oppressive even in our dealings with scallywags.

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