| 单词 | mangy |
| 释义 | mangy (once / 11016 pages) adj Imagine something really disgusting — crusty, dirty, falling apart — you know, like zombie flesh. If it’s shoddy, gross, and really, really cruddy, it can be called mangy. If you want a really insulting adjective, you can’t do better than the word mangy. A mangy dog has a skin disease carried by mites that causes the animal to lose its hair and develop crusty patches on its body. Or, if you own a mangy sweater, it is probably threadbare and stained. As you can imagine, you should probably think twice before calling a person mangy! WORD FAMILYmangy: mangier, mangiest, mangily, manginess+/mange: manges, mangy USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, it embraced something mangier and more tethered to general youth culture. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) It’s a shell of its former self, and the shell has been pecked full of holes by mangy Lake Michigan gulls. Salon(Oct 01, 2016) The resulting narrative predictably recycles three mangy tales from the Shostakovich wars. New York Times(Aug 26, 2016) adj having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap a mangy carpet a mangy old fur coat Syn mangey worn affected by wear; damaged by long use |
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