scalawag

noun

one who is playfully mischievous

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)

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rapscallionn rascaln scampn roguen knaven scoundreln blackguardn shystern spalpeenv

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