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Mangy

//ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
  2. 2
    Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit. broadly

    "We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York."

  3. 3
    Contemptible, despicable, low.

    "And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap wordnet

Etymology

From mange + -y.

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