(a.) Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.
(a.) Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.
(n.) Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
(n.) A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
(n.) Hence, a jester, a fool.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the face of the reef’s impending doom a motley collection of ordinary Australians shared a common determination that something had to be done.
(2) The brief sub-section of article 26 could be devastating to efforts to prosecute narcotics gangs, and if it comes into force would undermine the security forces and legal system, according to Kimberley Motley, a lawyer with a practice in Kabul.
(3) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
(4) But few, including the motley coalition of political parties backing him, expect him to give up any power.
(5) It was these motley collections of dreamers and bean-counters who began constructing massive, complex systems for seemingly private communication inside games.
(6) Many said they were there to protest at Ukip's stance on immigration and the political backgrounds of Ukip's motley collection of local council candidates; others were there to protest against his party's obscure economic policies.
(7) I grew up in Europe in the late 1970s and 80s, and remember how the greens were dismissed by the mainstream media and political establishment as nothing more than a motley collection of ex-hippies with no understanding of real-world politics who coalesced around a single issue.
(8) "The law is not just [about] in-court testimony, but it says that witnesses cannot even be questioned, which takes a lot of authority away from the Afghan police, Afghan army, NDS [intelligence agency], and the attorney general's office," said Motley.
(9) No major international bodies are monitoring the vote, but a motley selection of observers from 23 countries have arrived of their own accord.
(10) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(11) The Good Terrorist (1985) After two short novels under the pseudonym Jane Somers, Lessing returned to publishing under her own name with this story of a well-intentioned revolutionary, Alice, who lives in a north London squat with a motley bunch of fellow militants.
(12) The network’s chair, Tory county councillor Cecilia Motley, complained of a “tsunami of swingeing cuts” that would “make life for hundreds of thousands of people across all areas of rural England totally intolerable.” This angry grassroots reaction from the Tory shires has been awkward for the PM, for whom council cuts, for so long relatively unnoticed, at least among his affluent core support, appear to have become a liability.
(13) He said the committee was a “motley collection of amateurs” who would destroy Ukip.
(14) A motley battalion is trooping the colours in the snowy yard at the Cossack military school near Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), nearly 1,000km south-east of Moscow.
(15) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(16) Whether Manafort and the rest of Trump’s motley crew can pull something resembling a platform together ahead of the convention is anyone’s guess.
(17) It is an endless field of tiny wooden and perspex blocks, low-rise courtyards huddled cheek by jowl with a motley jumble of towers, expanding ever outwards in concentric rings.
(18) The motley contents of my baking cupboard – some flour, sugar, a handful of currants and a few crusty tins of syrup – are hardly inspiring, but I've vowed not to leave the house until the weather brightens.
(19) A few weeks later a motley group of radical rightwing European populists turned up in Crimea to watch its hastily arranged “referendum”.
(20) It is worth noting also that the official observers for this sham display of democracy were a motley collection of Putin apologists and – ironically given all the fury over "fascists" in Kiev – members of far-right parties.
Potpourri
Definition:
(n.) A medley or mixture.
(n.) A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together.
(n.) A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.
(n.) A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley.
(n.) A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major topics include the assessment and treatment of occlusal wear, the controversies surrounding treatment position of the mandibular condyles, occlusal considerations in osseointegrated prostheses, the two-way relationship between occlusal factors and temporomandibular disorders, design criteria and longevity studies in resin-bonded, fixed-partial dentures, and a potpourri of articles on other topics of interest.
(2) The 18th century minted the magazine, an elegant potpourri of stories and news, instruction and amusement.
(3) Perhaps a lovely bowl of potpourri under the nose of the framed Adolf smiling benignly down from the wall.
(4) Alongside it is the charming City Bird , a potpourri of a retail store, and its sister store Nest , which together serve as studio, gallery and retail outlet for Detroit-themed goods.
(5) In contrast, T-cell ALLs introduce a potpourri of genes into their T cell receptor loci.
(6) A potpourri of surgical and prosthodontic complications using the Branemark implant are presented and evaluated.
(7) It is labeled as potpourri and marketed as synthetic marijuana, although it has nothing to do with either.
(8) "I have to wash before I speak to you because I stink," he continues, his voice a weird transatlantic potpourri of vowels and dropped consonants.
(9) The programme, which he presents with Amy Lamé and Baylen Leonard , is a wonderful potpourri of nonsense.
(10) In this chapter, I have presented a potpourri of examples of proper clothing to wear during various exercise demands in different environments.
(11) Since tracheobronchial secretions are commonly contaminated by microorganisms colonizing the upper airways, routine culture of expectorated sputum, with the inevitable recovery of a potpourri of potential pathogens, can hardly be regarded as a meaningful exercise for the physician.
(12) The potpourri of names applied to those specializing in emergency medicine creates an aura of amorphism.
(13) This potpourri of fantasy and reality, celebration and satire, is a blast, and a very contemporary one.
(14) Despite this recognition, relatively little is known regarding the potpourri of physiological, environmental, structural and mechanical factors potentially associated with a lower aerobic demand of running.
(15) The book is a classic Brand potpourri: brilliant and infuriating, part travelogue, memoir, rant, riff, a call to arms and, ultimately, to love.
(16) We have reviewed a potpourri of high-tech advances of interest to the hand surgeon: electronically controlled prostheses, functional neuromuscular stimulation, computer graphics, data base computer programs, 3-D imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and lasers--fields that point toward new directions in medicine, in general, and in our specialty, in particular, as we enter the twenty-first century.
(17) The origin of the myth is a green, potpourri-like mixture of herbs and uncured tobacco leaves called ipdambae (잎담배), translated literally as "leaf tobacco".