mangy

• mangey

mange +‎ -y

• enPR: mānʹjē, IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪndʒi/

mangy (comparative mangier, superlative mangiest)

1. Afflicted with mange.
2. (by extension) Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

   Synonyms: decrepit, scruffy, shabby

   We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.

   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in Heart of Darkness:

     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 mangy skin with a pendent tail— something that looked a dried gourd; they shouted periodically together strings of amazing words that resembled no sounds of human language; and the deep murmurs of the crowd, interrupted suddenly, were like the responses of some satanic litany.

• “mangy” (US) / “mangy” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.