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Definition of motley in English: motleyadjectivemotlier, motliest ˈmɒtliˈmɑtli 1Incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate. （外观，特征）混杂的，杂乱的 a motley crew of discontents and zealots 一群三教九流的不满现实者和狂热分子。 Example sentencesExamples - Elsewhere, gun fanciers can pay as much as 1,000 for 800 rounds of ammunition to blast away at a motley variety of banged-up cars, buses and boats with a .50-calibre heavy machine gun.
- Set in medieval Asia, it follows a motley crew of diplomats, soldiers and slaves from the kingdom of Koryo as they are rejected and exiled by China's ascendant Ming lords.
- In the film, the young novice Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
- A motley little crowd of regulars braved the pouring rain and turned up.
- Again, the motley views expressed over the past decade or so reflect different theoretical assumptions.
- By 1998, the BJP had recognised this only too well, cobbling together a motley, and ideologically disparate, bunch of allies.
- In contrast to this perception, Miller paints a more realistic portrait of a motley and often fractious group of militants.
- I look at everyone and everything around me in the sea of motley colors vibrating in the room.
- The clerk looked from Ben to the parcels, as if debating momentarily with himself quite what he should do with the motley little collection of brown paper packages.
- Assembling a motley crew of accomplices, their poorly conceived plans would be laughable were they not so deadly and, ultimately, tragic.
- The public bar was often filled with a motley, but mostly friendly, assortment of bikers and metalheads.
- Alas, when we went on stage that night it was to the usual motley bunch of our mates, girlfriends and hangers on.
- Whatever pedestrian space was left would be jammed with a motley, jostling throng of buyers.
- It's definitely a ‘local's local’, with a motley crew of characters young and old.
- A motley crew of hapless musicians and street performers are seen trying to cheer up citizens in what appears to be a breadline.
- As war loomed in August 1939, Joyce could easily have found himself interned on the Isle of Man, along with a motley crew of British fascists and enemy aliens.
- Accompanied by five other friends, we were a motley group ourselves, due to the multiple nationalities represented, as well as the fact that half of us are vegetarians.
- So there we were last night at Brandon's bar in the Arcade — a motley collection of journalists and political hangers-on.
- Dozens of giant steel animals will be pulled through the streets by a motley crew of characters.
- We're down from one hundred to a mere twenty-one, and a motley, ill-assorted collection they are, too.
Synonyms miscellaneous, disparate, diverse, assorted, sundry, varied, mixed, diversified, heterogeneous 2archaic (of clothing) made up of a variety of colours. they wore the motley coat of jesters Example sentencesExamples - The ceremony was boring other than seeing faculty and the bishop dressed in their finest motley garments.
Synonyms multicoloured, many-coloured, multicolour, colourful, particoloured, many-hued, variegated, harlequin, kaleidoscopic, rainbow, psychedelic, prismatic, polychromatic informal (looking) like an explosion in a paint factory
noun ˈmɒtliˈmɑtli 1usually in singular An incongruous mixture. 混杂物 a motley of interacting interest groups 一群杂乱的互相影响的利益集团。 Example sentencesExamples - Now we have a motley of cultures and religions to teach our children.
- She had faith in a motley of astrologers and psychics, and it is perhaps a standing reproach that they failed to signal danger.
- At the first shop Pam and I settle for a motley of 50s cutlery and kitchen tools.
- Michael's first album ‘Missing You’ features an odd motley of styles carefully woven together and united by a great singing voice.
- This massively influential music producer has spawned a whole motley of lesser soundalikes with his pioneering electronic sounds.
- Chiefdoms are marked by a motley of villages dotted around them.
- 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.
- Going in, I had expected the usual motley of anti-globalization radicals, but the group I was with was a fairly polished, young, professional-looking bunch.
Synonyms mixture, assortment, collection, selection, assemblage, medley, miscellany, melange, mix, variety, motley collection, mixed bag, patchwork, pastiche, blend 2historical mass noun The multicoloured costume of a jester. 〈史〉（小丑的）杂色彩衣 life-size mannequins in full motley 真人大小、穿着杂色彩衣的人体模型。 Example sentencesExamples - I liked the mice in suits of armour and the Mouse King in red-and-gold motley.
- She snorted at the thought - if he truly had convinced himself that she was blind to his double-faced ways, he was more of a fool than those who wore motley and feathers and danced for ladies.
- He is remarkable only for wearing his hair like a fool - literally looking like some doleful court jester in black and white motley with a fright-wig hairdo.
- When the Duchess of Newcastle appears in public in outlandish attire or publishes her original views on women's position in society, she is not dressed in motley.
- Clad in red, yellow, and green motley, he smirks at us through his fingers in the traditional gesture of one who ‘looks the other way’ in the face of wrongdoing.
- The deformities of his body are magnified by his motley, and his glassy eye stares all the more blankly for the surrounding grease paint.
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin; perhaps ultimately related to mote. The word motley originally described a fabric woven from different-coloured threads, and was later extended to refer to the multicoloured costume traditionally worn by a court jester. To wear motley is to play the fool, and a motley fool is a professional jester. On with the motley is a quote from the English translation of Leoncavello's 1892 opera Pagliacci, about the real-life troubles of a group of comic actors, while motley crew was in use of a mixed bunch of sailors by the mid 18th century. Mottle was formed in the late 18th century from motley.
Definition of motley in US English: motleyadjectiveˈmɑtliˈmätlē Incongruously varied in appearance or character; disparate. （外观，特征）混杂的，杂乱的 a motley crew of discontents and zealots 一群三教九流的不满现实者和狂热分子。 Example sentencesExamples - In the film, the young novice Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
- So there we were last night at Brandon's bar in the Arcade — a motley collection of journalists and political hangers-on.
- A motley little crowd of regulars braved the pouring rain and turned up.
- The clerk looked from Ben to the parcels, as if debating momentarily with himself quite what he should do with the motley little collection of brown paper packages.
- It's definitely a ‘local's local’, with a motley crew of characters young and old.
- Elsewhere, gun fanciers can pay as much as 1,000 for 800 rounds of ammunition to blast away at a motley variety of banged-up cars, buses and boats with a .50-calibre heavy machine gun.
- Assembling a motley crew of accomplices, their poorly conceived plans would be laughable were they not so deadly and, ultimately, tragic.
- The public bar was often filled with a motley, but mostly friendly, assortment of bikers and metalheads.
- By 1998, the BJP had recognised this only too well, cobbling together a motley, and ideologically disparate, bunch of allies.
- Accompanied by five other friends, we were a motley group ourselves, due to the multiple nationalities represented, as well as the fact that half of us are vegetarians.
- Set in medieval Asia, it follows a motley crew of diplomats, soldiers and slaves from the kingdom of Koryo as they are rejected and exiled by China's ascendant Ming lords.
- Whatever pedestrian space was left would be jammed with a motley, jostling throng of buyers.
- I look at everyone and everything around me in the sea of motley colors vibrating in the room.
- As war loomed in August 1939, Joyce could easily have found himself interned on the Isle of Man, along with a motley crew of British fascists and enemy aliens.
- In contrast to this perception, Miller paints a more realistic portrait of a motley and often fractious group of militants.
- A motley crew of hapless musicians and street performers are seen trying to cheer up citizens in what appears to be a breadline.
- Alas, when we went on stage that night it was to the usual motley bunch of our mates, girlfriends and hangers on.
- Dozens of giant steel animals will be pulled through the streets by a motley crew of characters.
- We're down from one hundred to a mere twenty-one, and a motley, ill-assorted collection they are, too.
- Again, the motley views expressed over the past decade or so reflect different theoretical assumptions.
Synonyms miscellaneous, disparate, diverse, assorted, sundry, varied, mixed, diversified, heterogeneous
nounˈmɑtliˈmätlē 1usually in singular An incongruous mixture. 混杂物 a motley of interacting interest groups 一群杂乱的互相影响的利益集团。 Example sentencesExamples - Now we have a motley of cultures and religions to teach our children.
- At the first shop Pam and I settle for a motley of 50s cutlery and kitchen tools.
- Michael's first album ‘Missing You’ features an odd motley of styles carefully woven together and united by a great singing voice.
- Going in, I had expected the usual motley of anti-globalization radicals, but the group I was with was a fairly polished, young, professional-looking bunch.
- 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.
- She had faith in a motley of astrologers and psychics, and it is perhaps a standing reproach that they failed to signal danger.
- Chiefdoms are marked by a motley of villages dotted around them.
- This massively influential music producer has spawned a whole motley of lesser soundalikes with his pioneering electronic sounds.
Synonyms mixture, assortment, collection, selection, assemblage, medley, miscellany, melange, mix, variety, motley collection, mixed bag, patchwork, pastiche, blend 2historical The particolored costume of a jester. 〈史〉（小丑的）杂色彩衣 life-size mannequins in full motley 真人大小、穿着杂色彩衣的人体模型。 Example sentencesExamples - Clad in red, yellow, and green motley, he smirks at us through his fingers in the traditional gesture of one who ‘looks the other way’ in the face of wrongdoing.
- The deformities of his body are magnified by his motley, and his glassy eye stares all the more blankly for the surrounding grease paint.
- She snorted at the thought - if he truly had convinced himself that she was blind to his double-faced ways, he was more of a fool than those who wore motley and feathers and danced for ladies.
- When the Duchess of Newcastle appears in public in outlandish attire or publishes her original views on women's position in society, she is not dressed in motley.
- He is remarkable only for wearing his hair like a fool - literally looking like some doleful court jester in black and white motley with a fright-wig hairdo.
- I liked the mice in suits of armour and the Mouse King in red-and-gold motley.
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin; perhaps ultimately related to mote. |