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

Even he could not always make sense of the mongrel Ghiscari tongue the slavers spoke, especially when they were speaking fast.

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

But Fish and Wildlife did not police the domestic exchange of most captive-bred tigers until 2016, because they were considered mongrels with no conservation value.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2019

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

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

So Karlsson and her colleagues, including Jesse McClure, a former dog trainer for the US Marine Corps, decided to collect data from mongrels as well as pure-bred dogs and to crowdsource the data collection.

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