mongrel
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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
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
Another was reputed to have “sailed on and on over the garden wall, messing up a war garden and scaring a mongrel pup half to death.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020
She was a tough-looking mongrel, part Staffordshire terrier, part German shepherd—part wolf, for all Malcolm knew—and now, by the look of things, spoiling for a fight.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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