mangy

They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hide, and they out-distanced the boys who herded them.

Chapter 12 2010

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 2010

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 2010

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 4 1917

They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hides, and they outdistanced the boys who herded them.

Chapter 12 1915

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 L. Higgin

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 Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier 1875

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 2008

Because how could I go through a game with a hairstyle known as "mangy"?

EveryJoe 2008

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.

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