mangy

Svelto is accustomed to seeing coyotes roaming around her neighborhood in Pasadena but they’re usually a lot smaller and mangy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

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

A previous version of this article misstated the number of bears with mange in Virginia and the mangy bear situation in Maryland and West Virginia.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

The two people getting out of it didn’t resemble Bonnie and Clyde one bit: they were a middle-aged man with a potbelly and a young girl carrying a mangy cat.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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 Thornbury, Walter

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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

One and all, to the mangiest, surliest dog, Were quite eager to bark for his Worship of Quog.

From The Glugs of Gosh by Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James)