mangy

Besides, treating topical humor in the same way that a toothless, mangy mutt gums a dumpster bone is not the same as maintaining neutrality.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025

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

An older couple walking by once commented that it looked mangy.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

A mangy stray dog creeps toward us and begins sniffing me.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

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

“Oh,—a fur coat!” cried Peggy, “why, mine—mine has just the mangiest bit of a fur collar, and I’ve been proud enough of that—wait, just wait till I get a wonderful young caracal!”

From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Annabel Sharp

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