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Synonyms & Antonyms for motley
Synonyms: Adjective
assorted, eclectic, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, kitchen-sink, magpie, miscellaneous, mixed, patchwork, piebald, promiscuous, raggle-taggle, ragtag, varied
Synonyms: Noun
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of motley in a Sentence
Adjective
a motley collection of junk a motley crew of musiciansNoun
the motleys with their colorful outfits a motley of old junk stored in the attic
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
But today, even the wave of car-commercial guitar pop that was cresting around the time of the band’s 2006 motley, 10,000 Days, has crashed and dissipated. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Why Tool Could Be More Relevant Today Than Ever Before," 21 Aug. 2019 Dash is among the all-too-believable characters who make up the IPA's leaders and motley recruits. — Richard Lipez, Dallas News, "White supremacists are the eerily relevant villains in Karin Slaughter's new novel," 20 Aug. 2019 Our new temple, with the heavy-handed name of Temple Judea, was a motley agglomeration of about 200 Jewish families, led into hostile territory by jobs at the nearby Merck corporate campus. — Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, "How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.," 5 Dec. 2018 But this motley breed, borrowing the tools of each trade, is pulling craft culture together. — Keith Flanagan, USA TODAY, "The latest beers are inspired by booze," 12 June 2018 After establishing her own interior design firm, W Ford Interiors, in 2012, Ford got a call from Scott Disick that landed her in his motley crew of design experts on a mission to flip the house remodeling game on its head. — Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com, "Willa Ford on the Event That Pivoted Her Career — and What Flip It Like Disick Costar Scott Disick Is Really Like," 2 Aug. 2019 Along the 45-mile stretch of El Camino between San Francisco and San Jose, within half a mile of the road, there are 3,750 commercial parcels occupied by a motley collection of mostly one- or two-story buildings. — Andrew Moore, National Geographic, "To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars," 17 June 2019 The Oklahoma native hits the Turner Club Friday night in Kirby for the River City Wrestling Women’s Championship, part of a motley bunch of matches hosted by the longtime independent wrestling promotion out of San Antonio. — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, "Women’s wrestling now spotlights athleticism and skills over looks," 3 July 2018 The colleagues Haddad referred to were a motley group of activists who had banded together in pursuit of a single objective—to find a way to get affordable AIDS medicine to those who needed it most, free from the stranglehold of patents. — Katherine Eban, Quartz India, "How an Indian tycoon fought Big Pharma to sell AIDS drugs for $1 a day," 15 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
My father was a motley of sound, a funk band with bottomless drums and songs that knew nothing of fatigue. — David Roderick, SFChronicle.com, "State Lines: Rudy Francisco’s ‘In the Voice of Hip Hop’," 6 July 2018 This motley of topics swirls and eddies and reforms, with exchanges of goofy insults and gossipy asides about whoever happens to be absent from the field at the moment. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, "Review: ‘The Wolves’: A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score," 11 Sep. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'motley.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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