as in dilapidated
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
a mangy old car that was covered in rust
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Davis was more or less rocking his signature look — a red Adidas tracksuit, hair in mangy dreads.
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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
Perhaps Villa Capistrano could reveal something about Lawrence. Advertisement The brick stairs knifed past a garden, where lizards darted among eroded stone sculptures and palm trees wore their dead fronds like mangy beards.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Their caged homes don’t seem oppressive; a mangy stray dog named Bob (Danny DeVito) keeps Ivan company.
—Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2020
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
Perhaps Villa Capistrano could reveal something about Lawrence. Advertisement The brick stairs knifed past a garden, where lizards darted among eroded stone sculptures and palm trees wore their dead fronds like mangy beards.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
Their caged homes don’t seem oppressive; a mangy stray dog named Bob (Danny DeVito) keeps Ivan company.
—Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 22 Aug. 2020
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“Mangy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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