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

Not so much dog days as the mongrel years.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023

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

Some bids were called out in High Valyrian, some in the mongrel tongue of Ghis.

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

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

They argue in their new book that these dogs “are not mongrels or strays,” as is often assumed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2016

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

Our father’s room, formerly a servant’s, had a single window that looked out over an alley where mongrels fought.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García