Mangy

mangy







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[meyn-jee]

(獸) 生疥癬的



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–adjective

 1. having, caused by, 

or 

like the mange. 



2. contemptible; mean: a mangy trick. 

3. squalid; shabby: a mangy little suburb.  



Also, mangey. 





　

The vigorous muckraking sensibility that informed Eric Schlosser's 2001 nonfiction bestseller keeps this fictionalized screen version of "Fast Food Nation" bobbing along despite its overly slackerish narrative organization. 



Richard Linklater's rough-hewn tapestry of assorted lives that feed off of and into the American meat industry is both rangy and mangy; it remains appealing for its subversive motives and revelations even as one wishes its knife would have been sharper. 



Pre-sold title and contrarian perspective will play into the sympathies of hip, younger audiences, although a more pugnacious comic approach and emotionally bolstered drama might have helped Fox Searchlight push the picture to a more mainstream arena in planned fall release.



contrarian 

做法與一般大眾想法相反的投資人





ulceration

pustule 

rankle

fester

Malice festered his [spirit].  



slough 

mortification

1. humiliate

2. subjugate by abstinence

3. gangrene or necrosis (壞疽) cf. gangling

scabrous

scabby, scabious (covered with scabs)

Scalp