What's the difference between mangy and mingy?

Mangy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Infected with the mange; scabby.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Mingy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.

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