mangy

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mang·y /ˈmeɪndʒi/ adjective  1  MIsuffering from mange 患兽疥癣的 thin mangy dogs 瘦骨嶙峋的癞皮狗2  informalDAMAGE dirty and in bad condition 脏而破的，破旧的 a mangy-looking rug 一块看起来又脏又破的地毯

Examples from the Corpus

mangy• He wore a mangy fur hat and a ragged coat.• They went into a mangy old briefcase that Spider kept there.• The Celtic tiger, mangy or otherwise, arrived too late to uproot lives and careers established in other countries.• The Islington foxes must be poor mangy specimens.• With light feet, his mangy tail down, he padded away from me and I breathed again.• Richard looked around at the broken glass and mangy, tethered ponies.• Was there anything ever so mangy, trashy, as these potted objects?

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suffering mange from Corpus

mangy
mang‧y /ˈmeɪndʒi/ adjective
1. suffering from mange:
    thin mangy dogs
2. informal dirty and in bad condition:
    a mangy-looking rug

mangyBrE /ˈmeɪndʒi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmeɪndʒi/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (of an animal 动物) suffering from mange 患疥癣的◆a mangy dog患疥癣的狗(informal) dirty and in bad condition 污秽的；糟糕的 SYN moth-eaten ◆a mangy old coat破烂不堪的旧外套