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Meanings of mongrel in English
Dog with mixed breeds.
Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin.
Usage of mongrel in English
1
The days of mongrel breeds are long since over in the West.
2
Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring not universal.
3
Methods and results: Eleven adult mongrel dogs were studied under general anesthesia.
4
Arab or mongrel brokers, from the central provinces, came to examine them.
5
My opinion of Benham architecture is that it is slip-shod and mongrel.
6
Hamlet, in spite of his mongrel appearance, was a very clever dog.
7
And while the mongrel was struggling to get up, you shot him.
8
Those Varanj mongrel watchdogs haven't the wit to see we're better off.
9
You brought him a mongrel pup you picked up in the woodlot.
10
From a mere sufferer, the black mongrel had changed into a peril.
11
Mr. Motley continued with his philosophical ramblings, his ruminations on mongrel theory.
12
Without her and that mongrel gladiator, he would be in complete control.
13
A greaser is, I take it, a sort of mongrel-Indianand Spanish.
14
Ten seconds from the chopper and closing in like a mongrel horde.
15
Her expression was a mongrel cross between sullen resentment and utter boredom.
16
He looks at me and he thinks the mongrel hordes are pillaging.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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