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

Bruce, "the rescue centre mongrel", sadly died from the tumour at the age of 12.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2024

Whether it’s her notation of Archie’s blokish colloquialisms, Clara’s Anglo-Jamaican patois, the banter of two ancient Jamaican grouches or of second-generation Bengali teenagers, the mongrel texture of metropolitan life rises vividly from the page.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

The dæmon was in the form of a big rough-coated mongrel, sitting behind Alice’s legs.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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 drew a small crowd of local spectators: Workmen, sea gulls and neighborhood mongrels watched quizzically as we tried on life jackets and adjusted our kayaks’ seats and rudders.

From New York Times ● May 16, 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

One of his brother’s mongrels had sounded the hellhom at the kingsmoot on Old Wyk.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin