mangy
adjective
having, caused by, or like the mange.
Example Sentences
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Hunters with the highest kill count, the mangiest kill or the largest or smallest take home cash, belt buckles, hunting gear or other prizes.
From US News ● Jan. 22, 2016
Ill-shaven and semicomatose, Belushi plays the mangiest animal of them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
Orange-robed Buddhist monks contemplate under bougainvillaea and tamarind trees, watched by some of the mangiest dogs west of El Paso.
From Time Magazine Archive
She weaves pattern over pattern, regardless of confusion, so that the mangiest hedgerow is richer, more subtle than all the carpets and papers ever designed by Mr. Morris.
From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee
The thing that so infuriates us afterwards is that we actually believed in the scoundrel's woebegone pathos, although the mangiest cynicism crops out of every pore of his body.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
