Mangy

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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hide, and they out-distanced the boys who herded them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hides, and they outdistanced the boys who herded them. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ L. Higgin (N/A)

I have forgotten whether she said they looked "mangy," or "measly," or "peaky;" but she conveyed her idea in some such graphic phrase. ❋ 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". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Because how could I go through a game with a hairstyle known as "mangy"? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Despite her anticolonial prejudices, which shone through in her constant mocking of the declining empire and her Marxist cracks about “the mangy British lion,” Jane was allowed entrée into their social enclave. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

She accused me of being grumpy as I stared at the dog's mangy coat, imagining her wearing it as a hat. ❋ Rick Moranis (2012)

There, the winters are cold enough that the only animal that had fleas would be mangy and often diseased. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Because of this you never saw an animal with fleas unless it was in a place particularly dirty or the animal was particularly mangy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After all, most of my friends and family happen to be people, except for one bird and a mangy old orange cat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather than listen to his ill-informed hagiography of his brothers like Karl Marx, I drafted the mangy kinks of his hair and the intricate seashell whorls of his massive nose with my pencil. ❋ Darkerblogistan (2009)

When I peeked from my cracked-open bedroom door, I saw him kicking at her like she was nothing more than a mangy dog. ❋ David E. Hilton (2011)

A mangy, scabies-ravaged coyote was just plain gross—matted fur and oozing sores clinging to a bag of bones. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2011)

The twenty or so mangy, wolflike canines bared their teeth and howled before taking off for a dowdy Soviet-style municipal building. ❋ Johnny Weir (2011)