[
UK
/mˈeɪndʒi/
]
[ US /ˈmeɪndʒi/ ]
[ US /ˈmeɪndʒi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap
a mangy old fur coat
a mangy carpet
How To Use mangy In A Sentence
- A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take.
- The turkeys themselves are mangy critters - snowy feathers dirty from sitting on mud, bald heads vulture-like.
- The back of the hotel bordered on an empty space occupied only by weeds and mangy dogs. LORD OF THE SILENT
- Perhaps fooled by our mangy appearance, he insisted that we order something, his treat.
- Several of these places were hygienically challenged, with mangy dogs scurrying about, leaking sewage pipes and nowhere to bathe.
- O what an evaporation wherewith to bewray the masks or mufflers of young mangy queans. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory.
- Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
- She wants him to stop looking like such a mangy scruffbag.
- Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices