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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

The brick stairs knifed past a garden, where lizards darted among eroded stone sculptures and palm trees wore their dead fronds like mangy beards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

“We don’t need no mangy groundhog in Pennsylvania predicting weather for us,” Terry Boothe, a fifth-generation Texan and Bob’s biggest fan, told reporters last year.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2023

He’s a big dog and he looks mean because he’s kinda mangy.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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 Walter Thornbury

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

This she opened with the tears streaming down her face, and out there waddled the fattest, ugliest, and mangiest little pug dog that I have ever seen.

From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Master Billy came tumbling in with a torn jacket, a bloody nose, the traces of a few tears in his eyes, and the mangiest of cur dogs in his hands.

From Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor by Thomas L. Masson