(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.
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(3) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(4) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(6) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(7) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(8) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(9) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(10) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(11) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(12) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(13) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(16) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(17) In the first experiment ovariectomized female hamsters were administered varying dosages of progesterone (P), dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or CI-628 at the same time (concurrently) as estrogen (EB) or 48 hr after EB (sequentially).
(18) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(19) Products formed during electrooxidation were monitored as the electrode potential was varied.
(20) A total of 63 patients (95%) showed varying degrees of hyperostosis involving the cribiform plate, planum sphenoidale, or tuberculum sellae (including the chiasmatic sulcus).