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• n  derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
• n  an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

• The harmonica might still be mongrel, but in skillful hands it was capable of countless effects, actually suggested a well-balanced orchestra.
• Which is another way of saying that the fundamental, defining questions of any life have been spun around and sometimes exploded in the modern, mongrel world.
• Daz has written Oscar Wao (a mishearing of "Oscar Wilde") in a mongrel argot of his devising, a mixture of straight-up English, Dominican Spanish and hieratic nerdspeak crowded .

• bastard
• cur
• mutt

News & Articles

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• Ryan Smith's 'After' Starring Karolina Wydra Gets North American Deal
  Mongrel Media takes U.S. and Canadian rights to the dark fantasy from U.K. genre sales banner Jinga Films. read more        
  June 18, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter
• Ryan Smith's 'After' Starring Karloyna Wydra Gets North American Deal
  Mongrel Media takes U.S. and Canadian rights to the dark fantasy from U.K. genre sales banner Jinga Films. read more        
  June 17, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter

Quotes

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• Penny Wong in The Canberra Times
  It is not a hybrid, it is a mongrel. It is not a credible alternative, it is a smokescreen,Senator Wong told the National Press Club.
• Nathan Hindmarsh in Stuff.co.nz
  Daniel was my first coach at Parra, in SG Ball,Hindmarsh said. "I got on well with him. He's a good bloke and he's got that bit of mongrel in him, where, if you get out of line, you'll quickly hear about it."
• Brent Staker in NEWS.com.au
  Asked how he felt about Hall, Staker said: "He's a weak mongrel."