MONGREL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of mongrel in English

(Definition of mongrel from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of mongrel

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The dedication to yet another piece of mongrel theory led to yet another piece of nonsense.
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At this moment we are working under a kind of mongrel system.
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Is it to be a legislative mongrel all its life?
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As we know, high bred dogs usually have grave disadvantages and a good working dog often has to have a mongrel strain.
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We are all mongrel, descended from generations and waves of migration over the years—and here is another entering our debate now.
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To-day there is a tendency amongst the general public to buy a pedigree dog instead of a mongrel.
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The point that affects all of us is the great number of mongrel dogs that are running about the country.
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There are more mixed lots, more mongrel lots.
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The inspection of bulls will remain so that bulls of the mongrel or nondescript kind would not get licences in the future.
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The more mongrel breeds seem to be more immune.
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I suggest that the political dogma is mongrel political dogma.
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All this demonstrates that we are a mongrel race in these islands.
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They feel that by so doing they are keeping down the number of mongrel dogs bred; little puppies get about causing a great deal of damage.
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You get, therefore, a sort of half-bred member; you might even call him a quarter-bred member; anyhow a mongrel member who does not really know whom he represents.
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A mongrel would be much more effective.
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Translations of mongrel

in Chinese (Traditional)
雜種狗, 雜種的,來源混雜的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
杂种狗, 杂种的,来源混杂的…
in Spanish
perro mestizo, mestizo…
in Portuguese
vira-lata, sem raça definida…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
melez/kırma köpek, melez köpek…
bâtard…
bastaard-…
kříženec…
blanding…
anjing kampung…
พันธุ์ผสม…
chó lai…
kundel…
blandras, byracka…
baka kacukan…
der Mischling…
kjøter, bastard…
дворняжка, нечистокровний (собака чи інша тварина)…
дворняжка…
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