mangy

(mān'jē)
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. Affected with, caused by, or resembling mange.
2. Having many worn spots; shabby: a mangy old fur coat.
3. Rundown and filthy; squalid: mangy tenements.
4. Mean; contemptible.

mangily mang'i·ly adv.
manginess mang'i·ness n.

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meaning 'having mange' or 'squalid, shabby', is spelt this way in preference to mangey.

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adjective

Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. Informal tacky². Slang ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone topotseed, pastcurehope. See better/worse.

adj

Definition: scruffy
Antonyms: kempt, neat

IN BRIEF: Shabby.

A dog might look mangy and unhealthy if it is not brushed often.

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mangy
noun   informal
1 a mango
2 offensive slang a person who has recently immigrated from Pakistan into Britain

I told my parents I wouldn't ever get married to a mangy

The second, offensive, sense of the word depersonalizes the recently arrived immigrants, suggesting they have been imported en masse to Britain like a cargo of mangoes

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• Ugly, unattractive, or malformed

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skabet (om dyr, især hunde), beskidt, lurvet, elendig

Nederlands (Dutch)
schurftig, versleten/ vuil

Français (French)
adj. - galeux, élimé, miteux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - räudig, schäbig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ψωριασμένος, ψωριάρης, ψωραλέος

Italiano (Italian)
rognoso, cencioso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sarnento

Русский (Russian)
чесоточный, грязный, поношенный, убогий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - roñoso, sarnoso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - skabbig, sjaskig, tarvlig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
生疥癣的, 卑劣的, 肮脏的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 生疥癬的, 卑劣的, 肮髒的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 더러운, 옴 오른

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 疥癬にかかった, 不潔な, みすぼらしい, 卑劣な, 毛の抜けた

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) أجرب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוכה-שחין, מלוכלך, דוחה‬

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