Definition of "mangy" []

• Affected with, caused by, or resembling mange. (adjective)
• Having many worn spots; shabby: a mangy old fur coat. (adjective)
• Rundown and filthy; squalid: mangy tenements. (adjective)
• Mean; contemptible. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In a corner, on what had once been a bed of spruce-boughs, still wrapped in mangy furs, that had rotted to fragments, lay a skeleton."
• "They were galloping skeletons draped in mangy hide, and they out-distanced the boys who herded them."
• "Lean from sickness, her skin mangy with the dry scales of the disease called bukua, she was tied hand and foot and, like a pig, slung from a stout pole that rested on the shoulders of the bearers, who intended to dine off of her."