mangy

Adjective

mangy (comparative mangier, superlative mangiest)

1. Afflicted, or looking as if afflicted, with mange.
2. (broadly) 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...1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion)

   Synonyms:

   decrepit, scruffy, shabby

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; […]1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33