/ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/
- Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
- broadlyWorn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.
“We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.”
“When we came abreast again, they faced the river, stamped their feet, nodded their horned heads, swayed their scarlet bodies; they shook towards the fierce river-demon a bunch of black feathers, a man”
“Specter Knight: 'YOUR QUEST TO BECOME KING OF CARDS HAS NOT... GONE UNNOTICED.' / King Knight: 'AH, WORD HAS REACHED THE SLUMS, HAS IT? AM I TO TRAVEL WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF MANGY BEGGARS, NOW?'”
- Contemptible, despicable, low.
“And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]”
Formsmangier(comparative) · mangiest(superlative) · mangey(alternative)