mongrel

Example Sentences

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“Our community is probably less well informed; they’re probably not as health literate,” said Mr. Tam, the Mongrel Mob member, who is a former civil servant and who received the border exemption.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

We are a nation of cultural mutts — a point made brilliantly by Ann Douglas in her book “Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2017

“The White Boy Shuffle” was published at the high point of nineteen-nineties multiculturalism—Gunnar, the ultimate “cultural mulatto,” attends a P.C.-obsessed school called Mestizo Mulatto Mongrel Elementary—and the novel was knowingly inauthentic.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2015

He's even been working with the senior members of arch-rivals, the Mongrel Mob, to try to heal some of the old rifts.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2012

Mongrel dogs barked through the fence, and in one angle of it a young white man with long straight hair showed himself so abruptly as to startle my horse.

From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington