scallywag

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And now at Center Theatre, another gang of scallywags is on the rampage in Book-It Repertory Theatre’s faithful, fiery and heartily entertaining new version of the prototypical pirate yarn, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2016

This motion picture event is made by discerning geeks for discerning geeks, you see, and is definitely not anything to do with Hollywood scallywags skilfully playing a demographic like a violin.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2013

To that end, the figures all maintain the same toy-inspired style, more apparent in the scallywags from "Pirates of the Caribbean" than say the playthings from "Toy Story," and the game's graphics are equally toy-like.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2013

A pirate looks at 40, but in these scallywags are closer to 50 or 60.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2011

Besides the regular troops, there were also the band of irregulars under the Sheikh Bakr, numbering 380 men, 100 men under the Sheikh of Rosaires, and a few other unclassified scallywags.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston