Sentence examples for is mangy from inspiring English sources

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is mangy

adjective

Afflicted with mange.

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Exact(1)

Contrary to popular belief, not all of it is mangy, mass produced pop.

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Mr. Huckabee has even drawn questions this week about accusations that his son David was involved in killing a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998 ("It was mangy," Mr. Huckabee said when asked about the episode on "Larry King Live" on Monday. "It looked like it was going to attack").

The fox is a mangy, blood-stained creature that keeps gnawing the open wound in its side.

And yet beside the diggers & builders of new things is this mangy congregation, pushing through the scrub without a trail or blueprint or direction.

Under the circumstances of this study, in which a deadly wave of scabies affected a naive and dense chamois population, a large number of carcasses and live mangy animals was available, beyond other purposes, also for dog training.

(ii) Free-dog system (only for live mangy animals): Dogs were left to work freely, since mangy chamois seem to have less fear of dogs than humans and the presence of a handler would probably scare the animals.

It was Bobbie; mangy and thin as a whippet, but definitely him.

"The revolution might be a mangy, one-eyed cat," Babo jokes, "but it's our cat".

They looked at Luda with wary squeamishness, as if she were a mangy dog.

"He's a mangy beast," she says deadpan, then cackles wickedly.

The dogs Andrew Harvey sees in India, in A Journey in Ladakh, are predictably "mangy" or "flea-ridden".

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