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Another word for mangy

mangy Synonyms

mangy

modif.

Scabby
psoriatic, rashy, scabby; see dirty 1, sick.
Poverty-stricken
impoverished, shabby, indigent; see poor 2, squalid.

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Another word for mangy

adjective

Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect:

bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. (Informal) tacky². (Slang) ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot (or seed), past cure (or hope). See better

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

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