(1) They make you stand with a mangy dog and force you to be mawkish: "This is Fido - he needs a new home.
(2) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
(3) The skittering, mangy, foot-long residents of New York .
(4) It will not show the squalor of his hideout, and the mangy food he is forced to eat.
(5) A medieval world of ancient bazaars, dark, narrow alleyways and hand-pulled carts, this is India at its most extreme, and its most saddening: gangrenous beggars, crippled goats and mangy dogs are only some of the sights you’ll witness.
(6) She kills 'em but they keep coming, like a burst dog pipe shooting out a jet of mangy mutts.
(7) Mangy dogs scuttle through deserted alleys; men lounge listlessly in courtyards, seeking shade from the oppressive heat.
(8) The mange epizootic spread northwards through Finland and reached Sweden in late 1975, when mangy foxes appeared in the northern part of the country.
Manliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being manly.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the show broadcast on TBS, O’Brien shared some of his favorite moments from the trip on Twitter: Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) An iconic American writer known for his rugged manliness poses with Ernest Hemingway.
(2) A large body of evidence indicates that social drinking is a primary cultural symbol of manliness; portrayals in the media strengthen this association.
(3) To use an old-fashioned word, he lacks the “manliness” to look an opponent in the eye.
(4) These hushed-up aspects of manliness are what Grayson Perry hopes to look at in Grayson Perry: All Man.
(5) They came out of a culture of clean-living, rugger-playing manliness that seemed little changed since the first world war – in one sermon preached at HTB in this century, the subject of oral sex was dismissed with the words "Chuck it, men!"
(6) And yet Honor Blackman, who plays her, never looks less than Totally In Control, even when required for plot purposes to yield to Bond's manliness.
(7) Although the impact of the current recession on women's jobs has probably had more attention, more men are unemployed, a fact not unconnected with some men's inhibitions, again because of conventional notions about manliness, about doing "women's jobs".
(8) A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece based on the experiences of men who tried to end their lives, discussing how the oppressive expectations of manliness stopped them seeking help or being able to talk about their problems.
(9) The 1980s have witnessed a widespread recognition of the dangers of equating drinking and manliness, and societal changes suggest that drinking may be gradually losing its masculine aura.
(10) Baker had the knack, as a character actor, of furnishing whatever roughly was needed – arrogance or timidity, charm or urbanity, fear or manliness, polish or menace.
(11) You want to cover your flesh because you don’t want to reveal your manliness to the world.” For decades, Perry worked in relative anonymity.
(12) His unconscious doubts of his manliness result in a pseudoindependent behavior and a pose of hypermasculinity which induce a rejection of passivity and the dependent position necessitated by being a patient on hemodialysis.
(13) To a brass band accompaniment – easily the most tear-jerking of the wind instruments – people march holding banners embroidered with sad emblems of manliness: miners, sailors and industrial buildings.
(14) Manliness is no longer necessarily stoic and stolid, it must also be virile and athletic, preferably with explosions.
(15) Shorten had to wing it this afternoon, but if I understand his contribution correctly, he was trying to make one broad point: patriotism isn’t the preserve of conservatives who bang on about manliness while putting military personnel in the frontline.