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Recent Examples of mangy His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs. Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024 Paramount The other animal that makes a big impression is the mangy baboon that Paul Mescal’s character, Lucius, has to fight in his first battle. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024 Davis was more or less rocking his signature look — a red Adidas tracksuit, hair in mangy dreads. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024 The father, in a black frock coat, cracked his whip at a mangy and irritated lion who eventually agreed to jump through a hoop. Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024 In several cases, the cloned dog’s appeal appeared to lie partly in physical problems or a difficult start in life: the dog found as a mangy stray or rescued from a kill shelter or a bad breeder; the needy dog or the purebred with a non-ideal characteristic. Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 In front of us was a derelict baseball diamond and mangy grass fields. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024 This is 007 territory, not the usual world of mangy MI5 rejects that the show has so adeptly built up. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2023 The stench of cow dung engulfs the gulleys, where thousands of flies swarm outside doors and mangy cats roam the alleyways. Rhea Mogul, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mangy
Adjective
  • That sounds logical, but a healthy housing market needs some extra properties to account for old or dilapidated homes that are demolished or taken out of use – not to mention some vacancies so people can move around.
    Andrea Riquier, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The hotel is founded and managed by locals, who transformed a dilapidated bed-and-breakfast into a six-acre luxury hotel in 2001.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This was to help end the puppy mill industry, where dogs are bred en masse, leading them to be born and raised in filthy and neglected conditions.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2025
  • If coordinated correctly, Trump’s tariff threats offer an enormous opportunity for America’s neglected waterfront.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, plenty of other teams from the Oakland A’s of the ‘70s, who were actually paid $300 by owner Charley Finley to sport facial hair, to the scruffy and hirsute Red Sox of 2004, won it all with facial hair.
    Marc Edelman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • When the 18-year-old was making his way through the various age groups at Southampton, he was deemed to be a bit scruffy, with his boot laces always undone and socks rolled down, but this also endeared him to the coaches.
    The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025

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“Mangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangy. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.

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