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Example sentences for: mangy

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Well, the last to go will see the first three go before her... and her mangy little dog, too!
On the negative side, critics say it "rolls in sleaze and squalor like a mangy dog on steaming roadkill" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). On the positive side, Janet Maslin praises Clark for the way he manages to create "bad times with a wicked way of looking good" (the New York Times ). (This fan site is packed with video stills from the film; find out more about director Larry Clark at alt.culture.)
' In sermons, novels, political broadsheets, moralising treatises and popular engravings, the French were portrayed as mangy, corrupt, effeminate, ignorant, indolent, immoral and lecherous, as well as vain and superficial."
The pulp of the fruit of the cannonball tree ( Couroupita guianensis ) is rubbed on the infected skin of mangy dogs.