mongrel

Example Sentences

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Beginning in the 1970s, gangs with an ethnic basis, including the majority-Maori Black Power and Mongrel Mob, became more widespread.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2021

We are a nation of cultural mutts — a point made brilliantly by Ann Douglas in her book “Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2017

“The White Boy Shuffle” was published at the high point of nineteen-nineties multiculturalism—Gunnar, the ultimate “cultural mulatto,” attends a P.C.-obsessed school called Mestizo Mulatto Mongrel Elementary—and the novel was knowingly inauthentic.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 31, 2015

He's even been working with the senior members of arch-rivals, the Mongrel Mob, to try to heal some of the old rifts.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2012

And was not this Dog-Wolf lying helpless between his horns beyond all chance of doing him injury—this Mongrel that had been as a Brother to him when they were Outcasts?

From The Outcasts by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard