MANGINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)