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S: (n) scalawag (scalawag%1:18:03::), scallywag (scallywag%1:18:03::) (a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest))

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) bad person (bad_person%1:18:00::) (a person who does harm to others)

S: (n) wrongdoer (wrongdoer%1:18:00::), offender (offender%1:18:00::) (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
S: (n) bad egg (bad_egg%1:18:00::) ((old-fashioned slang) a bad person)
S: (n) sellout (sellout%1:18:00::) (someone who has sold out)
S: (n) decadent (decadent%1:18:00::) (a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically))
S: (n) destroyer (destroyer%1:18:00::), ruiner (ruiner%1:18:00::), undoer (undoer%1:18:00::), waster (waster%1:18:01::), uprooter (uprooter%1:18:00::) (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to) "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"
S: (n) libertine (libertine%1:18:00::), debauchee (debauchee%1:18:00::), rounder (rounder%1:18:00::) (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)
S: (n) panderer (panderer%1:18:01::) (a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money))
S: (n) polluter (polluter%1:18:00::), defiler (defiler%1:18:00::) (a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment)
S: (n) scalawag (scalawag%1:18:03::), scallywag (scallywag%1:18:03::) (a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest))
S: (n) seducer (seducer%1:18:01::) (a bad person who entices others into error or wrongdoing)
S: (n) shocker (shocker%1:18:00::) (a shockingly bad person)
S: (n) snake (snake%1:18:00::), snake in the grass (snake_in_the_grass%1:18:00::) (a deceitful or treacherous person)
S: (n) trampler (trampler%1:18:01::) (someone who injures by trampling)
S: (n) vermin (vermin%1:18:00::), varmint (varmint%1:18:00::) (an irritating or obnoxious person)
S: (n) victimizer (victimizer%1:18:00::), victimiser (victimiser%1:18:00::) (a person who victimizes others) "I thought we were partners, not victim and victimizer"

S: (n) rogue (rogue%1:18:00::), knave (knave%1:18:00::), rascal (rascal%1:18:02::), rapscallion (rapscallion%1:18:02::), scalawag (scalawag%1:18:02::), scallywag (scallywag%1:18:02::), varlet (varlet%1:18:02::) (a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel)
S: (n) imp (imp%1:18:00::), scamp (scamp%1:18:00::), monkey (monkey%1:18:00::), rascal (rascal%1:18:01::), rapscallion (rapscallion%1:18:01::), scalawag (scalawag%1:18:01::), scallywag (scallywag%1:18:01::) (one who is playfully mischievous)