mongrel

After that, the party kicked him to the curb like an unwanted mongrel.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2026

The mongrel called Mona escaped from its pet carrier on the way to a plane, running off across the runway in Buenos Aires, pursued by three vans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

England will need their inner mongrel in Australia, Stokes included.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

“Like many of us, I’m a mongrel, a hybrid, made up of many things,” she writes in the title essay.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2020

Kira reached down and scratched the homely mongrel behind his ear.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Mr. Wong peeled a kiwi and fed the better half of a sandwich to Little Knife, Little Black and Siu Mai, the three mongrels who live at the mill.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022

Emily Mortimer’s character in “Lovely and Amazing” keeps adopting ragged mongrels, until finally one bites her in the face.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018

We’re mongrels in how we muse, how we speak, what we believe, who we are.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2017

Although more than half of the dogs in the United States are mongrels, genetic studies tend to focus on pure-bred animals.

From Nature ● Jan. 25, 2016

At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger