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How to use mangy in a sentence

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The weasel on the front is a nice touch, but a mangy cur would have been a better image.
The horde reacted as one man, scrambling to their mangy horses and leaving as quickly as possible.
Small flocks of mangy goats and sheep, shepherded by women in flowing black abayas, forage in the trash.
He shut the door quickly, and turned to find a thin, raggedy cat licking the snow from its mangy coat in the middle of his kitchen floor.
Aden, her family's mangy old dog, loped into the room and scampered around her feet.
They cannot all survive, so many will starve and become mangy and diseased.
A goat and a couple of mangy dogs sniffed around them, their senses quickened by the smells from the next door kitchen.
I decided maybe it was time to leave the mangy koala runt behind and try something fresh.
Deep-down you have this sneaking feeling that there is every chance you are going to be sold a pup, quite possibly even a mangy dog.
Because of their debilitated condition, mangy wolves may also be more likely to attack easy prey such as domestic sheep.
Several of these places were hygienically challenged, with mangy dogs scurrying about, leaking sewage pipes and nowhere to bathe.
I bet she can both hear and smell those mangy animals from her front porch.
In the dinner line, a mangy, bearded white man accepts his daily portion of slop.
Sometimes there will be squealing siblings by their side and at other times, you'll see a mangy dog warily watching on.
He wore a colorless, primeval terry-cloth bathrobe that had been picked and shredded to a mangy condition.
Perhaps fooled by our mangy appearance, he insisted that we order something, his treat.
Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon.
If Scroffles the mangy mutt could turn into the beautiful Sam, then there really is hope for all the stray canines.
There's a man sleeping next to a mangy dog in an adjacent doorway.
They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory.
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I thought that perhaps he had been partnered off with some mangy Levantine, and wanted to escape from him at all hazards.
It was all rock, except in a few spots where there was some scrub bushes and mangy grass.
His practice was to wear on his head, in that tropical climate, a mangy fur cap.
O what an evaporation wherewith to bewray the masks or mufflers of young mangy queans.
Got his nerve with him, the mangy calf-eater, comin' up to the ranch thataway.
He made himself so Killingly funny that he was the envy and admiration of the whole mangy rabble.
About his chest and shoulders hung a single, mangy garment of goat-skin.
If the bye we never had is strayed and stole, by the powers, call him Phelan, and see him hide out under the bed like a mangy pup.
Twice I went to the bema and spoke to those priests and that mangy rabble.
He had goggling, bloodshot eyes, mangy moustaches, and a broken nose.
For an instant he stood silent and motionless as one of the mangy effigies at home, but only for an instant.
They're a mangy, stick-in-the-mud, follow-in-the-old-ruts crowd.
They, too, were powerful, clean-limbed men, not at all like the mangy crew that followed the Swedes.
We'll show 'em that we won't be bothered any longer with their mangy wars.
No trace of her passing on the hard earth with its mangy growth of grass.
So fine a fellow, and so mangy a following, it would be hard to find.
I agree, it was a thin and aged horse he rode, a bag of bones covered with mangy hide.
Well, we had six or seven mangy harriers and beagles belonging to the house, I'll allow, and had had them for years, and that the Doctor put them down.
A mangy little Jackal, who had been yapping hungrily on a low bluff, cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows to join the Adjutant.
His hair was mangy, standing out in isolated patches of wispy grey.
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