mangy

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English mange English -y English mangy From mange + -y.

1. Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
2. Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.

   “We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York.”

   “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.”

3. Contemptible, despicable, low.

   “And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]”