I said there was always a percentage of scallywags who never contributed to trade unions or anything else.
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It would mean that every conceivable person, every crook, spy or any sort ofscallywag, could come into the country and take up residence here.
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But what is to prevent somescallywagfrom losing his licence and asking for a new one?
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We are regarded as "scallywags," because we have not honoured our obligations.
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The prisoners there are not stars, not first offenders, but the ordinary prison scallywags.
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I know that the law is difficult to enforce on scallywags who are determined to evade it.
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I sympathise with the desire to keep scallywags out of this great industry, but a person may be dubbed ascallywagwhen he is not.
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The more liberal the licensing laws of this country, the less reason there will be for scallywags to take advantage of the loopholes.
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There are always a certain number of scallywags who will contribute nothing.
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They may be young scallywags, but they surely do not deserve such treatment.
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Thescallywagin every profession has to submit to the withdrawal of his certificate.
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Which foreign countries regard us as "scallywags"?
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Which countries are calling this country scallywags?
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We cannot approach cases in an emotional spasm, or on the basis that the defendant is ascallywag, and the book should be thrown at him.
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But also we are under a duty not to pass what we have not considered, and not to be oppressive even in our dealings with scallywags.
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