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.