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How to pronounce mongrel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bastard
Type of variation
Derivation mongrelize
Type Words
Synonyms cur, mutt
Type of dog, canis familiaris, domestic dog
Has types feist, fice, pariah dog, pie-dog, pye-dog
Derivation mongrelize

Examples of mongrel

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The pattern was to exhibit strength, tenacity, perseverance, stealth and mongrel.
From the stuff.co.nz
They are barbaric disgraceful mongrel monsters for treating animals like this.
From the canberratimes.com.au
Let's face it, English is a hybrid-mongrel mish-mash of Indo-European tongues.
From the economist.com
That's like admitting the neighborhood mongrel to the Westminster Kennel Club.
From the usatoday.com
The midweekers'success in Leicester was further proof of their increasing mongrel.
From the guardian.co.uk
Later he is attacked by a mongrel guard dog, but he refuses to run from the battle.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The young mongrel terrier was found malnourished and abandoned on the street.
From the express.co.uk
It's the most sour, stubborn and sometimes thorny mongrel you'll ever set eyes upon.
From the nzherald.co.nz
New Waratahs coach Michael Cheika is keen to introduce a bit of mongrel to NSW play.
From the couriermail.com.au
More examples
  • Bastard: derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"
  • Cur: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
  • Mongrel are a group formed in 2008, by former Arctic Monkeys bassist Andy Nicholson. Alongside Nicholson in the band are Jon McClure and Joe Moskow, both of Reverend and the Makers, Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell and Matt Helders from Arctic Monkeys as well as London rapper Lowkey from the ...
  • Mongrel is the third album by American rock band The Bob Seger System, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music). The album is currently unavailable in any format.
  • Mongrel is the third full-length release by mathcore group The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Recorded in Seattle over a four month period, it is the follow-up to 2005's Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear..
  • Mongrel is an open-source HTTP library and web server written in Ruby by Zed Shaw. It is used to run Ruby web applications and presents a standard HTTP interface. ...
  • (Mongrels (TV series)) Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August, 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled "Mongrels Uncovered" ...
  • Someone of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog
  • Despicable, deplorable person or thing.