| Mr. Hynes's prosecutors turned Mr. Scarcella's flaws into lovable tics, describing him during the trial as a scalawag out of central casting. |
| Isenberg's Earp is not a hero but a scalawag, flitting from one cow town to the next, and surviving by gambling, horse-thieving, pimping, embezzling, and policing. |
| The scalawag, being a renegade, was scorned more than a carpet-bagger. |
| Neither he nor his running mate the scalawag or turn-coat Southerner, was received socially. |
| Twain's insistent representation of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant — whose memoirs were being sold to scalawag publishers for almost nothing until Twain barged onto the scene — is great reading. |
| Eddie Haskell Santorum is supposed to get the evangelical vote what with his Christian-right backing, not the scalawag Newt. |
