How To Use Mangy In A Sentence
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We need to get rid of that mangy old carpet in the bedroom.
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I have quoted these remarks because it is so rare for English visitors, accustomed to the lush green of our own meadows and woods, to find anything to admire in what is too often called the "mangy," or at best the "arid," surroundings of the capital of Spain.
Spanish Life in Town and Country
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One was a rough mangy mut that looked like it had been caught in barbed wire or a fight.
How many of you own private land and what do you do if you see a dog running around and you know that dog is chasing deer away f
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Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
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They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hide, and they out-distanced the boys who herded them.
Chapter 12
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They cannot all survive, so many will starve and become mangy and diseased.
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a mangy carpet
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He shut the door quickly, and turned to find a thin, raggedy cat licking the snow from its mangy coat in the middle of his kitchen floor.
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We'll meet a baby ankylosaurus incubated from an abandoned egg; rampaging, short-armed carnotauruses; and a pack of nicoraptors, which are like mangy, feral dogs.
Terra Nova Exclusive: On the Set of TV's Hottest New Show
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Art thou speaking ill of women, cried Panurge, thou mangy scoundrel, thou sorry, noddy-peaked shaveling monk?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The patchy raggedness of the moult gave him a somewhat mangy appearance, but by the end of June he was smooth and as lean as a hungry wolf in his summer coat.
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One was a rough mangy mut that looked like it had been caught in barbed wire or a fight.
How many of you own private land and what do you do if you see a dog running around and you know that dog is chasing deer away f
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He quickly turned around to see a mangy looking dog snarling ferociously.
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Aden, her family's mangy old dog, loped into the room and scampered around her feet.
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If Scroffles the mangy mutt could turn into the beautiful Sam, then there really is hope for all the stray canines.
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The weasel on the front is a nice touch, but a mangy cur would have been a better image.
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In the dinner line, a mangy, bearded white man accepts his daily portion of slop.
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The principal items for sale to tourists were mangy-looking fur hats and purses, Kashmiri embroidered felt rugs and tea cozies, and carved walking sticks.
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In one courtyard, a mangy, flea-ridden griffon lay couchant, chained to the wall, flies buzzing around its slow-blinking head.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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Usually the forlorn demesne was supervised by a mangy waiter brooding over mangy tables and by a mangier cat who kept a furtive eye on the placarded list of each day's _plat du jour_ and wondered when her turn would come for Thursday's _Sauté de lapin_.
The Belovéd Vagabond
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Several of these places were hygienically challenged, with mangy dogs scurrying about, leaking sewage pipes and nowhere to bathe.
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Because how could I go through a game with a hairstyle known as "mangy"?
EveryJoe
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I have consumed dishes at my family's dinner parties that could be described with adjectives like "mangy" and "gangrenous" and "paleolithic".
Vonnegut's Asshole
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He wore a colorless, primeval terry-cloth bathrobe that had been picked and shredded to a mangy condition.
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'O master,' he said, 'we have laid by great wealth in molasses and sugar and flour, but our shack is yet mean, our clothes thin, and our sleeping furs mangy.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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We need to get rid of that mangy old carpet in the bedroom.
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Stop in on any of the parishes around the island and you're bound to see women standing in doorways and windows conversing with their neighbours and children playing barefoot in the streets with slightly mangy dogs.
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Sometimes there will be squealing siblings by their side and at other times, you'll see a mangy dog warily watching on.
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Kids are cautioned not to touch a mangy dog for fear that the mange will ooze from the hapless pooch to the child and cause his skin to rot and his hair to fall out.
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The canyons attain depths of 700 m and widths of 15 km, with incision extending from near the top of the Munyarai Formation to the level of the Meramangye Formation.
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There should be straggly broad bean plants, and lines of mangy lettuces.
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A mangy cat showed up looking hopeful, out there in the cold.
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Because of their debilitated condition, mangy wolves may also be more likely to attack easy prey such as domestic sheep.
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Underneath the mangy, beige carpet, the floorboards were rotten.
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Now the Mangy Mouse is trying to milk any money it can out of the ape-raised human, hoping to, yet again, hornswoggle parents out of their hard-earned mortgage payments.
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Close before me, as I leaned against the wall, a mangy, bearded, long-haired fanatic sprang up and down unceasingly, and unceasingly chanted: Tiberius is emperor; there is no king!
Chapter 17
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A goat and a couple of mangy dogs sniffed around them, their senses quickened by the smells from the next door kitchen.
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You look at his feet: he isn't wearing scuffed, oil-stained boots or even stilettos, and there's no sign of a mangy mutt snoozing nearby.
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There's a man sleeping next to a mangy dog in an adjacent doorway.
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I decided maybe it was time to leave the mangy koala runt behind and try something fresh.
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I live in the country (well before all the townies moved in) and I'm fully aware that foxes need controlling, they are in the main mangy diseased creatures and I'm fully aware that banning hunting with dogs won't save the life of a single fox.
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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Scrubby coat and trousers, dirty shirt, scarf, and cap, socks more like anklets for holes, and a pair of split boots; bedraggled hat, frowsy jacket, blouse and skirt, squashy boots, and perhaps a patchy "pelerine" or mangy "boa" -- such is accepted as the natural costume for the heirs of all the ages.
Essays in Rebellion
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Who cared for tradition in these days, when spirits could be evoked from black bottles, and black bottles could be evoked from the complaisant white men for a few hours 'sweat or a mangy fur?
THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
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We need to get rid of that mangy old carpet in the bedroom.
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Lean from sickness, her skin mangy with the dry scales of the disease called bukua, she was tied hand and foot and, like a pig, slung from a stout pole that rested on the shoulders of the bearers, who intended to dine off of her.
CHAPTER IV
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Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon.
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Bit scruffy and mangy himself, but blessed with a true heart of gold.
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We visited what is called the silversmith's quarter, but it was utterly unlike what such a locality would be elsewhere, composed of one-story mud cabins, in narrow filthy lanes full of chickens, mangy dogs, cats, and quarrelsome children.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
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I bet she can both hear and smell those mangy animals from her front porch.
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But them sickenin ', sap-headed stiffs, with the grit of rabbits and the silk of mangy ky-yi's, a-cheerin' me -- ME!
CHAPTER X
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They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hides, and they outdistanced the boys who herded them.
Chapter 12
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In what is called the silversmith's quarter, amid filthy lanes, full of dirty children, mangy dogs, and moping cats, we find hovels containing finely wrought silver ornaments manufactured on the spot by the natives.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands
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Instead, he's a mangy mutt with his tail between his legs.
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Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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She wants him to stop looking like such a mangy scruffbag.
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Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
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They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory.
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O what an evaporation wherewith to bewray the masks or mufflers of young mangy queans.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Several of these places were hygienically challenged, with mangy dogs scurrying about, leaking sewage pipes and nowhere to bathe.
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Perhaps fooled by our mangy appearance, he insisted that we order something, his treat.
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The back of the hotel bordered on an empty space occupied only by weeds and mangy dogs.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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The turkeys themselves are mangy critters - snowy feathers dirty from sitting on mud, bald heads vulture-like.
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Now seven months old, Sam is a very healthy and robust dog, showing that even the most scruffy and mangy animal can be reclaimed and rehabilitated.
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Many dogs are mangy, sickly or hungry, and often roam in packs.
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The patchy raggedness of the moult gave him a somewhat mangy appearance, but by the end of June he was smooth and as lean as a hungry wolf in his summer coat.
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He threw his coat onto the mangy couch and turned on the TV.
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In a corner, on what had once been a bed of spruce-boughs, still wrapped in mangy furs, that had rotted to fragments, lay a skeleton.
THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK
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But it seems there are still a few thousand diehards who need their fix of lethargic penguin and mangy giraffe.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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There was brought to the door at dawn for Richard a jibbing, backing pony, with vicious eyes, and for me a mangy horse like a knifeboard, spavined, with weak legs, and very aged, but nevertheless showing signs of “blood.”
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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The park beside Santa Sabina is empty except for a few mangy, watchful cats and an old man who is playing simple scales on the flute - trilling up the scale, trilling down.
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Rugs and runners help but still get pretty mangy (even with sweeping etc; at least one can take them outside for beating, shampoo them if needed and throw cotton durries in the wash (on cold with nothing else as the Indian dyes tend to run into everything other than the little rug itself - smile).
Creating A Feeling of Home
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After realising that only 12 people and a mangy dog bother playing football in Australia, new Sheilaroos coach Holger Osiek has resisted calls for perma-knacked winger Harry Kewell to quit the national team.
A Robot Replica Of Fiona Bruce
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A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take.
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A lawn had grass that had grown long in patches and browned off in the dry season -- lions in a small circus have that same mangy look.
SNOWLINE
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I have forgotten whether she said they looked "mangy," or "measly," or "peaky;" but she conveyed her idea in some such graphic phrase.
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
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Deep-down you have this sneaking feeling that there is every chance you are going to be sold a pup, quite possibly even a mangy dog.
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This, then, I pondered, was the end of it all, of life and strife and striving and love, the weary spirits of these long - gone ones to be invoked by fat old women and mangy sorcerers, the bones of them to be esteemed of collectors and betted on horse - races and ace-fulls or to be sold for cash and invested in sugar stocks.
SHIN-BONES
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I wouldn't want her mangy little dog to suffer an inferno of hellish fury.
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a mangy old fur coat
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The few passing-places were occupied either by pilgrims heading back to Elis and Pheia, who had seized them as picnic spots, or by boot-faced locals grazing mangy goats.
See Delphi and Die
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Despite her anticolonial prejudices, which shone through in her constant mocking of the declining empire and her Marxist cracks about “the mangy British lion,” Jane was allowed entrée into their social enclave.
A Covert Affair
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Perhaps fooled by our mangy appearance, he insisted that we order something, his treat.