Thesaurus / mongrel

mongrel

How to use mongrel in a sentence

Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!

Diard's mongrel position, which he himself made still more questionable, brought him great troubles.

JUANAHONORE DE BALZAC

With our door ajar we watched the ghastly struggle between the faithful mongrel and the assassin.

But he was such a forlornly muddy mongrel pup, and so eloquent of tail, that I spoke his name on an impulse, and put out my hand.

And a mongrel followed faithfully all the time unnoticed, and wondering, perhaps, at his master.

Now, here seemed simple panic: and like a pack of dogs which rush to mangle a mongrel, they were at him pell-mell.

A mongrel and anomalous species like the German Meerkatzen—monkey-cats.

The mongrel dog that bites the hand that feeds it is your superior.

You can't be a little American mongrel any more; not until I'm dead, anyway.

FOUR DAYSHETTY HEMENWAY

If that should fail, damme, I'll ride across to Yarmouth, and call out the first of the mongrel breed that I fall in with.

THE PILOTJ. FENIMORE COOPER

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OCTOBER 26, 1985

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