mangy
Collocations
4ADJ.
new
MANGY + NOUN
', beggars, hotel
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
really
Definitions
adj
Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
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.
Contemptible, despicable, low.
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; […]
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap
- mangey
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.
WiktionaryWhen 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 man
WiktionarySpecter 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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