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US
/ˈmɑtɫi/
]
[ UK /mˈɒtli/ ]
[ UK /mˈɒtli/ ]
NOUN
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a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
he had a variety of disorders
a veritable smorgasbord of religions
a great assortment of cars was on display - a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
ADJECTIVE
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consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
assorted sizes
a motley crew
miscellaneous accessories
sundry sciences commonly known as social
assorted sizes
an arrangement of assorted spring flowers
a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music -
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
a jester dressed in motley
a particolored dress
the painted desert
pied daisies
a piebald horse
VERB
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make something more diverse and varied
Vary the menu - make motley; color with different colors
How To Use motley In A Sentence
- The high tide of adaptationism floated a motley navy, but it may now be on the ebb. Adaptationism
- Because Selma University was unaccredited, Spring Hill wanted Motley to enter as a freshman, which she found intolerable.
- Chiefdoms are marked by a motley of villages dotted around them.
- a scarlet "whittle" over all this motley finery; with a "outwork quoyf or ciffer" (New England French for coiffure) with "long wings" at the side, and a silk or tiffany hood on her drooping head, -- Priscilla in this attire were pretty indeed. Sabbath in Puritan New England
- So it's great to find this marvellous motley crew still making records and still having something to say. The Sun
- The motley collection of stables, houses, chandleries, and shanties near the waterfront had been drafted into service as warehouses. LAST CALL
- But no, they all came in an anorak or windcheater and a untidy motley lot they were.
- And it succeeds in treating this often delicate subject head-on but with the lightness of touch that you would expect from The Motley Fool.
- When the complete brigade emerge in full drag from their dressing rooms, they look quite the motley crew.
- Within the walls of the keep were a motley of low, stone buildings that housed the garrison, supplies, and mounts of the soldiers, engineers and tradesmen that made up the residents of the fortress.
