(disapproving) consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together:
She had a motley group of friends at college. * The room was filled with a motley collection of furniture and paintings. * The audience was a motley crew of students and tourists.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for motley is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is motley a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, motley is tagged as adjective.
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