We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
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Mangy
//ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi//
Synonyms for "mangy" (71 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Related word relations
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Translations
40 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أَجْرَب adj (afflicted with mange)
- جربان adj (afflicted with mange)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кра́став adj (afflicted with mange)
Catalan
2 entries- ronyós adj (afflicted with mange)
- sarnós adj (afflicted with mange)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- گەڕ adj (afflicted with mange)
- گەڕۆڵ adj (afflicted with mange)
Czech
2 entries- opelichaný adj (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit)
- prašivý adj (afflicted with mange)
Dutch
1 entries- schurftig adj (afflicted with mange)
Esperanto
1 entries- skabia adj (afflicted with mange)
Finnish
1 entries- kapinen adj (afflicted with mange)
French
1 entries- galeux adj (afflicted with mange)
German
3 entries- krätzig adj (afflicted with mange)
- räudig adj (afflicted with mange)
- schäbig adj (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit)
Irish
1 entries- gearbach adj (afflicted with mange)
Italian
2 entries- rognoso adj (afflicted with mange)
- scabbioso adj (afflicted with mange)
Latin
1 entries- scaber adj (afflicted with mange)
Macedonian
1 entries- шугав adj (afflicted with mange)
Norman
1 entries- galeux adj (afflicted with mange)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- gurî adj (afflicted with mange)
Polish
3 entries- nędzny adj (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit)
- parszywy adj (afflicted with mange)
- plugawy adj (afflicted with mange)
Portuguese
1 entries- sarnento adj (afflicted with mange)
Romanian
1 entries- râios adj (afflicted with mange)
Russian
4 entries- запу́щенный adj (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit)
- парши́вый adj (afflicted with mange)
- парши́вый adj (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit)
- убо́гий adj (worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- šȕgav adj (afflicted with mange)
- шу̏гав adj (afflicted with mange)
Spanish
1 entries- sarnoso adj (afflicted with mange)
Swedish
1 entries- skabbig adj (afflicted with mange)
Turkish
2 entries- uyuz adj (afflicted with mange)
- uyuzlu adj (afflicted with mange)
Ukrainian
1 entries- коро́стявий adj (afflicted with mange)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany.
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Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'
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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; […]
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