mangy /ˈmeɪn.d͡ʒi/ adjective3 •Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange. •Worn and squalid-looking; bedraggled or decrepit.We stayed in a really mangy hotel in New York. •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; […] — 1922 formsmangier · mangiest