As an experiment we shot a miserable mangy Pariah dog, that was prowling about the ground seeking garbage and offal.
If any of the boys at school wanted to play me a trick they let loose half a dozen mangy tabbies in our yard, or sent me a hideous 'Tom' trussed up like a fowl in a hamper, or made cats' noises in the dead of night under my window.
Cloete was a fellow that would be kind to a mangy dog.
Or chased ignominiously to the boat--for you would not have expected me to shoot down unoffending people for the sake of a mangy mule.
When nothing else to engage him, he had his orders to take the mangy dog out for a walk--and what a dog!
Robert Picard whispered in Guy's ear in a tone of astonished awe.
They passed two monks, who were scowling angrily at the man, who was just exciting the laughter of the crowd by asserting that there was a holy man present who usually preferred a flask of good wine to saying his vespers.
Got his nerve with him, the mangy calf-eater, comin' up to the ranch thataway.
Natives believe that human flesh disagrees with a tiger's digestion, and point in proof to the mangy state of most man-eaters' hides.
On another occasion when sitting up in the middle of a village for a daring leopard which used to enter it at night and kill the cattle in their pens, I shot a mangy pariah dog in the dark.
He said, "Sir, have I the honor of addressing the poltroon who edits this mangy sheet?
My friends called me the sick rat, and the mangy poet, and all that.
Under his hand themangy beast changed to a glorious animal--one of those wonder horses of the olden days that rise on the wind and gallop with the clouds.
Give me rather that poor mangycreature that lies over yonder on the dung heap.
It is a railed-in garden of desolation, its turf long ago forgotten, its gravel-paths even obliterated, a dingy strip of earth under a fewmangy trees.
The stone fell in the gutter on the far side and, started a fight among the mangy street curs, which proved a diversion and probably saved King's party from more accurate attentions.
The little mangy jackals threw up their heads to howl at it; and after that there was pale light diffused along the track, and they could see so well that King set a faster pace, and they breathed hard in the effort to keep up.
When I had occasionally slunk up the cellar steps into the street, and glared in at shop windows, I had done so with no higher feelings than we may suppose to animate a mangy young dog or wolf cub.
A mangy thing, lifting its nose to scent the jungle breeze, crept through the underbrush.
A mangy cur barked once, and then lay down again at the foot of a deer-skin lodge.
Stretched in the thick dust a mangy dog or two lay panting; here and there under the shadow of a wall dozed an Indian, crouched on his haunches.
The soldiers embraced the girls, and the children, their fingers in their mouths, wandered from bench to bench, and a mangy dog begged wherever he thought that he saw a kindly face.
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.
Not for this mangy town-site, that's sure an' certain.
It was more under than above the water as they pulled it back again with the first of the crew, a funny little dark man, dressed in mangy gray fur.
They had chosen the most dismal locality; the lane fell steeply to the sea, and was full of refuse; mangy cats and dogs ran about, dragging fish-offal up the steps of the houses and leaving it lying there.
But he wasn't going to be driven out of the pack like a mangy dog; he didn't care a hang for the whole lot of them!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
