The word "mongrel" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun used to describe a dog of mixed breed, often one that does not have specific characteristics or pedigree. Example sentence: The mongrel was a mutt of uncertain lineage, but she was a loyal companion and beloved family pet.
Yes, "art": television is capable of creating its own art, which is not dependent on other arts, or is at least a mongrel synthesis of them.
"We've got a real dog, Mojo, who is very obedient, and a wonderful dog, a mongrel, but CGI work will be done.
3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.
Now there was one more query, one farewell dig, about his team's "aura" – or lack of it, as Strauss had observed earlier – and it brought out the mongrel in him.
Dance in this country has always been a mongrel product: Ballet Rambert – now Rambert Dance company – was founded by the Polish-born Marie Rambert; while past luminaries of the Royal Ballet include the South African dancer and director Monica Mason, Canadian dancer Lyn Seymour, Ecuador-born choreographer Frederick Ashton, and of course its Irish-born founder Ninette de Valois.
It is a fittingly mongrel ideology for the cosmopolis.
To consider Saint George a symbol of "England alone, above, better" is narrative nonsense, as well extremely damaging to the English as a people with a delightfully mongrel heritage and a global future.
When Mr Townend talked of "a mongrel race", Mr Hague said that, on the contrary, multiculturalism was one of Britain's strengths.
He treats modern western culture as a mongrel whole that has taken voraciously from others, thriving as it does on dissent and originality.
If a country wants to grant favours to one trading partner but not all, it has to write complex "rules of origin" to establish the nationality of a product.But in a dense network of production, every product is a mongrel, with an indecipherable pedigree.
The grey floor-tiles with their snowflake motif were always swept clean, even though her fluffy mongrel terrier shed his long hair everywhere, and though the door was kept open to get some air in from the bike-filled, rowdy, dusty street.
