scalawag
- n a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- n a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- n one who is playfully mischievous
- But Crabb is not your average superannuated former Indian fighter, former Indian, intimate of Wild Bill Hickok and General George Armstrong Custer, ex-gunslinger, scalawag and .
- Of one in particular he bellowed: "And there's that old scalawag.
- Recruited as a kind of bag man for the secret service, he receives the nasty photograph of the Princess, with the blithest of comments: "She always was a scalawag.