Mangy

Quick meaning: Mangy is an adjective meaning Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.

Meaning

Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
2. Contemptible, despicable, low.

Example Sentences

We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]

Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'

When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany.

Word Forms

• mangier
• mangiest
• mangey

Synonyms for mangy

Depending on context, synonyms include decrepit, scruffy, shabby, worn, mangey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mangey, worn, sleepy, tired, weary, mutts.

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