Difference between Knave and Scalawag

KNAVE vs SCALAWAG: NOUN

A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
An unprincipled, crafty fellow.
A male servant.
A man of humble birth.
A boy; a boy as a servant; a servant; a fellow.
A friend; a crony: used as a term of endearment.
A false, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; one given to fraudulent tricks or practices; a rogue or scoundrel.
A playing-card with a servant (usually, in English and American cards, in a conventionalized costume of the sixteenth century) figured on it; a jack.
A boy; especially, a boy servant.
Any male servant; a menial.
One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.
A male child.
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.

White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
One who is playfully mischievous
A reprobate; a rascal.
A white Southerner working for or supporting the federal government during Reconstruction.
An under-sized, scraggy, or ill-fed animal of little value.
A worthless, good-for-nothing, or contemptible fellow; a scamp; a scapegrace.
A scamp; a scapegrace.
Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
A rascal. Alternative spelling of scallywag.

Churl, Deceiver, Poltroon, Fool, Flatterer, Blackguard, Malapert, Scoundrel, Varlet, Jack, Rogue, Scalawag, Rapscallion, Rascal, Scallywag

Freebooter, Lowlife, Ruffian, Blackguard, Reprobate, Dude, Varlet, Imp, Monkey, Knave, Scamp, Rogue, Rascal, Scallywag, Rapscallion

Jester, Buffoon, Churl, Poltroon, Fool, Flatterer, Blackguard, Malapert, Scoundrel, Jack, Rogue, Scalawag, Rapscallion, Rascal, Scallywag

Renegade, Freebooter, Lowlife, Ruffian, Blackguard, Reprobate, Dude, Imp, Monkey, Knave, Scamp, Rogue, Rascal, Scallywag, Rapscallion

We think the likely answer to this clue is KNAVE.
Machiavellian knave, although he is generally looked upon as such.
FIRST MUSICIAN What a pestilent knave is this same!
Tom, a knave fellow in russet shot him down.
AP knave don't support fears of a risk.
Male name, knave in a deck of cards.
The knave and fool are their own libellers.
The knave turns fool that runs away; The fool no knave, perdy.
And thou like a knave must stand by, and see every knave use me at his pleasure?
As thou art a knave, and no knave.

The scalawag was the native white man who made up the middle class of the South; the planter above, the Negro below.
Her work can be found in INDY Week and Scalawag Magazine, as well as on her blog, Courtney Has Words.
Scalawag will solicit questions via mail and text message about specific challenges readers are facing and offer responses directly and online.
Scalawag and Igor search the shores frantically and spot Pinocchio lying face down in the sand.
That's the sloth that turns the whole drug heartbreak of their scalawag to it.
They went directly to the Surgeon General to tell him what a scalawag Frode Jensen was.
He, on the other hand, is a gentleman and a scalawag.
So, where do you fit in this rigging, you swashbuckling scalawag?
She is somewhere in the end stage of scalawag osborne.