How To Use Manky In A Sentence
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I had to comb the shops for two days until I finally found one in Huntly - a manky, mottled looking thing, with the skin of a toad.
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His thin hair is manky and he scratches his head, buffing it raw.
WHITE LIES
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In pristine condition it looks campily flashy; distressed it becomes manky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, if only somebody would do something about those manky, shabby, urban foxes which keep trashing my dustbin.
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Yup, that's right, that spunky young bin man whose YouTube rap sensation condemns the health secretary, Andrew Lansley born in 1956, as a "grey-haired manky old codger" is cutting short his lifespan just as surely as if he were sucking on a crack pipe while leaping Becher's Brook.
You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review
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Other than that, I've mostly been sitting at home, writing and coughing, courtesy of the manky lurgy that's going round at the moment that lingered for nearly a month.
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An ageing weirdo is breeding spiders in his manky old shack.
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I've managed to get them pretty manky from time to time and a spin through the washing machine brings them up as good as new.
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His thin hair is manky and he scratches his head, buffing it raw.
WHITE LIES
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Having completed the painting and got hardly any orange paint in my hair, I took a long hard look and realised that the kitchen tiles looked manky.
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It was absolutely manky; it was filthy, the engine room, a disgrace actually.
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The bathroom that I share with Paul was manky, so I spent a while cleaning it.
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The titles mask more than mere manky hanky panky.
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Over the past fortnight a rap song calling the health secretary "Andrew Lansley tosser" and "greedy Andrew Lansley… you grey-haired manky codger" has become a theme tune of the anti-cuts movement.
Andrew Lansley: He's got designs on our health
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She's a manky, self-indulgent scrubber who is certainly no role model for young people.
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I rescued you from the pound when you were all manky with fleas.
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On top of the table is a reasonably substantial amount of cash in notes, coins and IOUs, and beside it a manky old duffel bag destined to carry home someone's winnings.
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I like being able to work in a manky dressing gown.
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A really manky pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces.
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With 200 people in one airless room it's getting hot and stale and manky.
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For every chocolate chip cookie, there is a manky wafer biscuit.
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I would recommend getting two of whatever you decide on - they get pretty manky and it's nice to be able to pop one in the wash!
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My little friend was looking decidedly manky and I feared the worst.
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My interest in Manchester's bands and their gabby, glib boss was minimal, but this is a gleefully rambunctious trip to a manky heart of darkness, with guns, deaths and prodigious amounts of drugs.
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What about the seats - some of them reek with manky stinks going back decades.
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'Chip munk' is actually an accent distortion thing - they mean 'Cheap Manky'
Get Your Chipmunk Merchandise Here!
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My most feeble Harvest Festival gift was a few apples harvested from our manky back garden tree and a nearly unopened jar of raspberry jam.
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There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge.
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Every time I open a copy of Grazia, I see a picture of what looks like a manky student who's randomly grabbed their outfit from a Salvation Army rummage bin - only fifteen years older and with stringier hair.
Never Mind the Birkenstocks
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Because the materfamilias - for all her right-on, knit-your-own-lentils, manky-haired bullshit - was, once you scratched the surface, the most hyper-competitive pushy bitch of a mother it's humanly possible to imagine.
Woodcraft Folk Memories
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There are certainly people who dive in the hope of retrieving some kind of treasure - a porthole, a telegraph, a manky old tap-fitting hacked off a bit of pipework.
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I am sure we all know stories of anglers who have caught good fish on manky bait, but it is the exception; big juicy baits that ooze scent and look good enough to eat are what is required for cod.
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Admittedly they were a bit manky, but I still felt offended.
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After all, a manky mascara can't do much damage, can it?
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I can't understand what made me so desperate to keep some manky old cables and nick-nacks from my desk.
