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- noun Plural form of
motley .
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Examples
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Glad to be one of the motleys blogging alongside of you.
Word Blind 2006
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Perhaps that's what the Murderati motleys should explore in a future post: What NOT to wear (in author's photos, broadcast interviews, readings, etc.).
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Perhaps that's what the Murderati motleys should explore in a future post: What NOT to wear (in author's photos, broadcast interviews, readings, etc.).
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So we make ourselves "motleys to the view, and sell cheap what is most dear."
Education and the Higher Life J. L. Spalding
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The general show came so near to exhausting variety that one would have said that no addition to it could be conspicuous, but when this Falstaff and his motleys marched through it one saw that that seeming impossibility had happened.
Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872
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The general show came so near to exhausting variety that one would have said that no addition to it could be conspicuous, but when this Falstaff and his motleys marched through it one saw that that seeming impossibility had happened.
Following the Equator, Part 5 Mark Twain 1872
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