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mangy

adjective as in scruffy

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Example Sentences

The boat docked, and here they came, loping out of the trees to cluster at the water’s edge, all mangy fur and narrowed eyes.

With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

They are the old mangy bears that bother tourists, Jesse James bears, that they want to get rid of.

It was on the way to the Sally Mangy that this brangling had begun, and it ended jest as they were seating themselves.

But if they are careful, no harm comes from nursing a mangy dog, and I have never known of any one taking the disease.

The belligerent whine was enough to renew the identity of the mangy little larrikin whose couch on the sand he had shared.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mangy, such as: decrepit, dirty, impoverished, indigent, mean, and moth-eaten.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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