Crossword-Solution: MOTLEY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Motley | a. | Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat. |
| Motley | a. | Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. |
| Motley | n. | Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style. |
| Motley | n. | A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool. |
| Motley | n. | Hence, a jester, a fool. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOTLEY | anagram | ETYMOL |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MOTLEY (5)
The redskins disappear as they have come like shadows, and soon their place is taken by the beasts, a great and motley procession: lions, tigers, bears, and the innumerable smaller savage things that flee from them, for every kind of beast, and, more particularly, all the man-eaters, live cheek by jowl on the favoured island.
There lies our only hope of even temporary escape; there we may find a cave or a narrow ledge which two may defend for ever against this motley, unarmed horde.” Together we raced across the scarlet sward, I timing my speed that I might not outdistance my slower companion.
Facing the little knot of officers was the entire motley crew of the _Fuwalda_, and at their head stood Black Michael.
You must know, my dear cousins and countrymen, that I wore russet before I wore motley, and was bred to be a friar, until a brain-fever came upon me and left me just wit enough to be a fool.
But Kai Shang realized that he must act with circumspection, for Gust alone of the motley horde possessed sufficient knowledge of navigation to get them out of the South Atlantic and around the cape into more congenial waters where they might find a market for their ill-gotten wealth, and no questions asked.
Quotes with MOTLEY (3)
For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and on the ground like leaves in May and November; and I have done so as a contemporary and not just as a historian. The May Day celebration will survive, but with a different meaning. New portraits will head up the processions. A date devoted to the Great Mother is re-profaned. A pair of lovers in the wood pays more homage to it. I mean the forest as something undivided…
The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 38 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).