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But CBS, which leans on the scripted “NCIS” and “FBI” franchises, is also placing bets on a trio of unpedigreed dramas this fall.

From Seattle Times • May 18, 2022

He cut his teeth on Montana match races, relays on unpedigreed horses in Indian country, and contests at rough tracks with names like Chinook and Stampede.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

It is more respectable by daylight; stout ladies with children and mittens and bundles and unpedigreed dogs drop up of afternoons for a stein and a chat.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.

The words beginning with un, in the following lines may be classed with participial adjectives:    "No king, no subject was; unscutcheoned all;     Uncrowned, unplumed, unhelmed, unpedigreed;     Unlaced, uncoroneted, unbestarred."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold