mangy

Svelto is accustomed to seeing coyotes roaming around her neighborhood in Pasadena but they’re usually a lot smaller and mangy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Besides, treating topical humor in the same way that a toothless, mangy mutt gums a dumpster bone is not the same as maintaining neutrality.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025

The women wear black slips, combat boots and mangy fur coats; the men, gray suits and conservatively wide ties.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2023

Since 2018, there have been approximately 120 to 150 reports of mangy bears each year in Virginia.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

He’s panting hard, and his fur is mangy, but he looks happy.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Instead, it embraced something mangier and more tethered to general youth culture.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016

And after that to be ready, al mangier ou al revele; i.e., to eat or to revel, according to the ordinance of the master and wardens of the fraternity.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Hunters with the highest kill count, the mangiest kill or the largest or smallest take home cash, belt buckles, hunting gear or other prizes.

From US News ● Jan. 22, 2016

Orange-robed Buddhist monks contemplate under bougainvillaea and tamarind trees, watched by some of the mangiest dogs west of El Paso.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ill-shaven and semicomatose, Belushi plays the mangiest animal of them all.

From Time Magazine Archive

She weaves pattern over pattern, regardless of confusion, so that the mangiest hedgerow is richer, more subtle than all the carpets and papers ever designed by Mr. Morris.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Lee, Vernon

“Oh,—a fur coat!” cried Peggy, “why, mine—mine has just the mangiest bit of a fur collar, and I’ve been proud enough of that—wait, just wait till I get a wonderful young caracal!”

From Peggy Parsons at Prep School by Sharp, Annabel