| My most feeble Harvest Festival gift was a few apples harvested from our manky back garden tree and a nearly unopened jar of raspberry jam. |
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| There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge. |
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| She's a manky, self-indulgent scrubber who is certainly no role model for young people. |
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| I can't understand what made me so desperate to keep some manky old cables and nick-nacks from my desk. |
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| So peel off those manky trainers and get something fresh and funky on your plates of meat. |
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| Now, if only somebody would do something about those manky, shabby, urban foxes which keep trashing my dustbin. |
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| A really manky pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces. |
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| The bathroom that I share with Paul was manky, so I spent a while cleaning it. |
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| Having completed the painting and got hardly any orange paint in my hair, I took a long hard look and realised that the kitchen tiles looked manky. |
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| My little friend was looking decidedly manky and I feared the worst. |
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| An ageing weirdo is breeding spiders in his manky old shack. |
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| Mike: The hair is rampant, as ever – so why bother with the manky moustache and beard? |
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| Admittedly they were a bit manky, but I still felt offended. |
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| With 200 people in one airless room it's getting hot and stale and manky. |
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| Other than that, I've mostly been sitting at home, writing and coughing, courtesy of the manky lurgy that's going round at the moment that lingered for nearly a month. |
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| I rescued you from the pound when you were all manky with fleas. |
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| For every chocolate chip cookie, there is a manky wafer biscuit. |
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| On top of the table is a reasonably substantial amount of cash in notes, coins and IOUs, and beside it a manky old duffel bag destined to carry home someone's winnings. |
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| It wasn't the manky noodle stands, or the vomitous thrills of the big wheel, or the massive amounts of Tennent's that bothered me. |
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| London's roofs are terra incognita: vast unexploited areas, unseen, neglected and home only to manky urban pigeons, rusting water tanks, groaning lift-motor houses, high-level litter and sweating air-conditioning apparatus. |
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| Pattison, who grew up on the grey streets around the south banks of the River Clyde himself, is delighted and apprehensive about giving Rab's manky headband another turn around the block. |
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| Not a pleasant thought is it, that manky bit of banana wedged under the space bar, or the mouldy corner of crust languishing under your Caps Lock key? |
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| But Trinny and Susannah have worked their evil magic so successfully even favourite outfits assume the guise of manky old chamois leathers in our mind's eye. |
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| In 1995 Freedman curated the show Minky Manky at the South London Gallery. |
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