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Another word for mangy

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Adjective

  1. Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect

    Idioms:
    See also:

    better

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Another word for mangy

Modifier

  1. Scabby

    See also:

    sick

    dirty

  2. Poverty-stricken

    See also:

    squalid

    poor

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Sentence Examples

  • This was not a mangy or vicious creature standing before him, but a breathtakingly beautiful, gigantic wolf.

  • Add to that, the fact that most of the creatures are very dog-like in appearance, (or in one case, rodent-like) and there is a good chance that what is really in the pictures is either a mangy coyote or large rodent.

  • The fact that Mangy has brad by the balls?

  • The bloated mangy sky-blue gazelle sadly turned its nose up at the fresh new pork chop.

  • mangy dogs.

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