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- noun Plural form of
mongrel .
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Examples
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Some hybridization schemes are designed with such care that the breeders would resent their products being described as mongrels or mutts as President Obama delightfully described himself.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Some hybridization schemes are designed with such care that the breeders would resent their products being described as mongrels or mutts as President Obama delightfully described himself.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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I venture to suggest that those who seek this end should select some of the primitive types of form, such as are found among the undifferentiated mass of the species, those which are improperly termed mongrels, and this for the reason that among these unselected creatures the intelligence is quicker and more varied than it is in the highly developed varieties.
Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 1873
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The mongrels are the result of all kinds of mixtures; black and white, mulatto and white, quadroon and white, octoroon and white.
Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872
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The mongrels are the result of all kinds of mixtures; black and white, mulatto and white, quadroon and white, octoroon and white.
Following the Equator, Part 7 Mark Twain 1872
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Why doesn't the GOP discuss Sarah Palin's trouble deciding whether or not to abort Trigg in secret (or just have an in-flight miscarriage – she sure tried hard enough) or Rep Wilson's belief that "mongrels" should stay hidden?
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Still, dream on of your pure land, cleansed of "mongrels".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Still, dream on of your pure land, cleansed of "mongrels".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It is positively un-American then to classify a portion of those who make up our country's melting pot as 'mongrels' and 'cockroaches' and then blast a clarion call to your fellow citizens to join you in stamping out them out because they disagree with you or don't live as you might wish them to.
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2008
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But that said, for all his whimpering about "mongrels," for HPL miscegenation is bigger than race.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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