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MANGINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
Synonyms:
manginess; seediness; shabbiness; sleaziness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("manginess" is a kind of...):
inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manginess"):
raggedness (shabbiness by virtue of being in rags)
Derivation:
mangy (having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap)
