mangy

Synonyms for mangy

adj scruffy

adjective. inferior, low in quality

adjective. inferior, low in quality

adjective. rough, bedraggled

by 1745, from mange + -y (2).

We'll show 'em that we won't be bothered any longer with their mangy wars.

He had goggling, bloodshot eyes, mangy moustaches, and a broken nose.

No trace of her passing on the hard earth with its mangy growth of grass.

So fine a fellow, and so mangy a following, it would be hard to find.

His practice was to wear on his head, in that tropical climate, a mangy fur cap.

It was all rock, except in a few spots where there was some scrub bushes and mangy grass.

They're a mangy, stick-in-the-mud, follow-in-the-old-ruts crowd.

About his chest and shoulders hung a single, mangy garment of goat-skin.

Git out o' here; I'm ashamed to be seen speakin' to a mangy hound like you.

Got his nerve with him, the mangy calf-eater, comin' up to the ranch thataway.