mangy
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He detonates narrative warfare wherever he goes, so it’s difficult to decipher what is planted to create spectacle to feed the mangy cult and what is a true trash fire of a human.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2024
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
An older couple walking by once commented that it looked mangy.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022
The man went inside with our passports, after we’d explained about the picnic and he’d glanced into the car and seen our daughter asleep, in her zoo of mangy animals.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing mangy
The Jungle Book
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