What's the difference between carpetbagger and scalawag?
Carpetbagger
Definition:
(n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Example Sentences:
(1) The newspaper said he joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(2) Just over 18 months ago on this page, I called Richard Branson a carpetbagger .
(3) Because she’d been isolated by other politicians when she got to Canberra, she was easy prey for hard-right carpetbaggers.
(4) Farage had to fight an extremely draining two-front war against these opportunist carpetbaggers during the referendum, as they sought to seize control of the party he built up from nothing while he was out winning the campaign.
(5) The deal will disappoint any carpetbaggers with lingering hopes of a windfall from holding a Britannia account.
(6) I promise you I will continue to get up every day and work hard to put New Hampshire’s working families and small businesses first.” The first American woman to be elected both a governor and US senator, Shaheen defended herself by painting Brown, who sat in the US Senate for Massachusetts from 2010 to 2012, as an opportunistic carpetbagger who was in hock to out-of-state billionaires.
(7) Nationalisation wasn't perfect by any stretch but it was a lot better than this bunch of chancers and carpetbaggers owning our industry."
(8) Brown is accused of being an opportunistic carpetbagger.
(9) He sold his house in Chelsea for £400,000, a fortune in those days, and tried to get selected as the SNP candidate for the constituency of Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, where he had a 9,000-acre estate, and therefore felt he could not be accused of being a carpetbagger.
(10) The newspaper said he also joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “Chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(11) Otherwise, an elite in the capital will continue to race away, leaving other cities to the tender mercies of George Galloway and whichever carpetbagger politicians happen to be passing.
(12) The Japanese and white carpetbaggers did not afford the Yolngu the same respect that the Macassans had.
Scalawag
Definition:
(n.) A scamp; a scapegrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) And then there are those scalawags who use "science" to "demonstrate" that the debates don't matter.