Antonyms for mongrel
ˈmʌŋ grəl, ˈmɒŋ-mon·grel

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1. mongrelnoun

   Synonyms:
   bitser, bitzer, bitsa, mutt, cut

2. mongrelnoun

   Someone of mixed kind or uncertain origin, especially a dog.

   That dog is a mongrel, who knows what breed it could be!

   Synonyms:
   bitsa, bitser, cut, mutt, bitzer

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1. • Variation

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1. bastard, mongrelnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   dickhead, cur, by-blow, cocksucker, shit, prick, asshole, whoreson, love child, bastard, mutt, illegitimate, son of a bitch, illegitimate child

2. cur, mongrel, muttnoun

   an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

   Synonyms:
   bastard, cur, mutt

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1. mongreladjective

   Synonyms:
   hybrid

How to use mongrel in a sentence?

1. John Steinbeck:

   A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

2. Ken Burns:

   We're in an age when everybody wants to suggest that we should separate and go back to some pure, singular American thing, it never existed. We've always been a mutt. We've always been a mongrel. And if you try to say that country music is identified more with that, you're already in trouble because it's just not true.

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