Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
moth or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"
NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010
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That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"
NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010
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That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"
NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010
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That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"
NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010
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The bright lights darkened with the shadows of people who blundered mothlike against me.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Part of that connection lies in the fact that while the people in the audience are watching the person on stage, a little mothlike voice inside each of them is saying, "Maybe I could do this, too."
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The bright lights darkened with the shadows of people who blundered mothlike against me.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The bright lights darkened with the shadows of people who blundered mothlike against me.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Kyle glanced over at Lady-Bugger flapping his cape mothlike in front of the headlights.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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Kyle glanced over at Lady-Bugger flapping his cape mothlike in front of the headlights.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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