adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
collection
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The party is not a motley collection of ageing hippies, but an arm of a wealthy and complex organisation.
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If so, is what you have put together really just a motley collection with a messy clash of styles and materials?
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These confiscated nets were a very motley collection .
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All had several days' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing.
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A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square.
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A middle-aged couple got out and began to unload a motley collection of boxes and bags.
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A group appear from the house, a motley collection like a troupe of clowns.
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Photographs of the period show groups of men in a motley collection of semi-uniform.
crew
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A motley crew for the most part, with the reputation of being beer-swilling, womanising chauvinists.
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When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A motley bunch of students, ex-convicts and unemployed artists worked together to repair the building.
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a motley fleet of aircraft
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The people who travelled with us to Mexico were a motley crew.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gaz slowly gathers a motley group of losers.
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If so, is what you have put together really just a motley collection with a messy clash of styles and materials?
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One seemed to be humans dressed in black, the other was a motley group of exters.
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The party is not a motley collection of ageing hippies, but an arm of a wealthy and complex organisation.
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These confiscated nets were a very motley collection.
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They were an entertaining and very motley gang.