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mangy

[mayn-jee] / ˈmeɪn dʒi /


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He detonates narrative warfare wherever he goes, so it’s difficult to decipher what is planted to create spectacle to feed the mangy cult and what is a true trash fire of a human.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024

In front of us was a derelict baseball diamond and mangy grass fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

The women wear black slips, combat boots and mangy fur coats; the men, gray suits and conservatively wide ties.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2023

Since 2018, there have been approximately 120 to 150 reports of mangy bears each year in Virginia.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

Satellite images of the family’s residences stand out like sable-clad thumbs in the mangy landscape of North Korea.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Instead, it embraced something mangier and more tethered to general youth culture.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016

And after that to be ready, al mangier ou al revele; i.e., to eat or to revel, according to the ordinance of the master and wardens of the fraternity.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

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

Ill-shaven and semicomatose, Belushi plays the mangiest animal of them all.

From Time Magazine Archive

This she opened with the tears streaming down her face, and out there waddled the fattest, ugliest, and mangiest little pug dog that I have ever seen.

From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This she opened with the tears streaming down her face, and out there waddled the fattest, ugliest and mangiest little pug dog that I have ever seen.

From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle




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