- Flea-bitten
- Infected with the mange; scabby.
- Flea-bitten
- Irritable
- Shabby
- Unkempt children
- Unpopular
- Hard-bitten
- Let down
- Sarcastic and mocking
- Sceptical
- sneeringly pessimistic
- Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious;
currish.
- Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic,
year; cynic cycle.
- Covered with sores
- Crusted (wound)
- Crusted over
- Crusted over (of sore)
- Crusty (sore)
- Encrusted
- Flea-bitten
- Feeling unwell
- Flea-bitten
- Ill-reputed
- Not well
- Off-colour like a fig?
- Out of sorts
- Out of sorts (coll)