How to use "motley" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "motley" in popular movie and book plots

• She makes her way to Kati Kati, a nearby lodge, where she meets a motley crew of residents under the leadership of Thoma.  - Kati Kati
• The band film their first music video for their song "The Riddle of the Model", wearing a motley assortment of often comical costumes, with Raphina acting as ingenue and makeup artist.  - Sing Street
• Dharmesh's stepbrother, however, has other plans, and he and a motley group of co-conspirators kill Dharmesh and inform authorities that it was a suicide.  - 3D Saamri
• When she meets the help-seeking priestess Teela, she offers her assistance and assembles a motley troupe.  - Mythica: A Quest for Heroes
• He spends his days writing sheyr-o-shayari admired by his motley group of good-for-nothing friends.  - Jigariyaa
• This motley army led several battles against the horde, but both armies succeeded in taking a decisive advantage.  - Crusade (Forgotten Realms novel)
• To collect the bounty and his Azure Grimoire, a motley array of fighters converge on Kagutsuchi.  - BlazBlue Alter Memory
• The show revolves around Kabir "KD" Dalal (Arjun Mathur) and his motley group of friends: Patrick Graham Fairbottom (Patrick Graham), Devang Oza (Hussain Dalal) and Maakad (Sarang Sathaye).  - Bring on the Night (TV series)
• In an abandoned parking lot in a Rio de Janeiro favela sits a circus tent—an incongruous sight, but no more unusual than its motley crew of young performers, searching for a life apart from the drug-related violence around them.  - Without a Net (film)
• Together they recruit a motley crew for their film, and Dáithí enlists Kate to star.  - The Callback Queen
• The shop is where Mang Pidol’s animated storytelling sessions are usually attended by a motley group of common folks in the neighborhood — the barbers Samson (Brod Pete) and Adonis (Long Mejia), the bakery owner Brigit (Joy Viado) and her assistant, Lyla (Arianna Barouk).  - Pidol's Wonderland
• A motley crew consisting of Sheriff Gideon ('The Black'), famous outlaw Blanc de Blanc ('The White') and inept servant Sakura ('The Yellow') tries to retrieve the precious animal.  - The White, the Yellow, and the Black
• Matters are set for a series of farcical complications and misunderstandings as they start to meet a motley selection of odd characters who do nothing to improve relations between the newly-weds.  - Where's Sally?
• Kroupa resists vehemently, but is finally persuaded to enroll in the evening classes at a highschool where he is joined by a motley group of men and women of the same age group.  - Marecek, Pass Me the Pen!
• Soon, every one of the motley assortment of fugitive criminals and murderers who inhabit the hotel knows, and Hunt is forced to promise each a share of the loot.  - The Unholy Garden
• As three refined, old-fashioned young ladies, they are baffled by modern life but with the help of their ghost-guardian Agatha, and a motley selection of ghosts they manage to survive the challenges modern culture brings.  - Dead Gorgeous
• Gathering a motley crew of allies on the way, Neo goes to the Power Station to confront the Dark One's evil servants.  - Robot Holocaust
• The ruse doesn't last long and soon the real Chan arrives on board, interrogating a motley assortment of crooks, heiresses and crew as he works to solve a crime whose only witness is secretary Judy Haynes (Phyllis Brooks).  - Charlie Chan in Honolulu
• A motley collection of guests and regulars at a country hotel are anxious one dark and stormy night when they hear by a radio news bulletin that a dangerous criminal has just broke jail and is headed their way.  - The Old Barn
• Upon arriving at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he meets a motley crew of volunteers and draftees from varying socio-economic backgrounds with a montage of their basic training shown during the credits.  - Airborne (1962 film)
• With freedom hanging in the balance, a motley band of knights embarks on a dangerous mission to fight against the dreaded assassins, dragons and soldiers of Dragon-Eye and rescue their world from the clutches of evil once and for all.  - Knights of Bloodsteel
• A motley assortment of street booksellers on West 4th street, in Greenwich Village, New York City, are first introduced.  - Bookwars
• The local villagers are somewhat of a motley crew and are naturally delighted to have such an - albeit fading - star playing with them.  - A Bunch of Amateurs
• With them are a motley crew of warriors dredged from the bottom-most rungs of society: Barley, a half-blind farmer; Doran and Isin, two priests thrust into military duty; the Falcon, an old soldier whose best days are behind him; Jared, the King of Thieves; and an army composed of young boys.  - Slaves of the Shinar
• "The scene throughout is a semi-basement living room in a house near London, a grim and sordid place inhabited for sleeping and eating by a motley group of unmarried young women with babies - already born or about to be hustled into an unfriendly world.  - Women of Twilight
• A romance set among a motley crowd of eccentrics of all ages who constitute the population of st Andrews.  - Girl in May
• With his motley crew, Captain Jack succeeds in making his voyage despite an international search for his boat by maritime authorities.  - Captain Jack (film)
• Married with four young daughters, he does his best to keep up appearances and make parents believe—mainly on Herrick's behalf—that they are sending their sons to the right school, despite their inadequate equipment and their motley staff of only four: Merry himself; his wife (known as Mother), a mother figure as unqualified to teach as her husband; Miss Basden, an unmarried middle-aged schoolmistress with slight feminist tendencies; and Mr Burgess, a very young and inexperienced graduate.  - Pastors and Masters
• It ends with the motley crew, Lakewalkers and farmers, that has made its way to the mouth of the Gray River (the Mississippi River) having a picnic on the sands of the River's delta and considering the whens and hows of their return journey up-river.  - Passage (Bujold novel)
• As zombies march on the high school, a motley group of dateless teenage outcasts, among them Jimmy (Jared Kusnitz), Lindsey (Greyson Chadwick), Steven (Chandler Darby) and Kyle (Justin Welborn), take on the zombies and save the day.  - Dance of the Dead (film)
• The novel—described by The New York Times as Indiana Jones meets The Canterbury Tales—features a motley crew of characters: Father Paul, an unbalanced priest; an archaeologist, dr Jocelyn Crane; Loach's brother, a museum curator; publisher Rodney Makai and the "Blavatskian Makai sisters"; their African-American driver, Ned; and Juke and Boyle, World War I veterans still suffering the ill effects of mustard gas.  - Caverns (novel)
• Among the motley group arriving at Oxford at the beginning of October are also Nigel Blake, a former student of Fen's who now works as a journalist in London; Nicholas Barclay, a university drop-out of independent means in search of the good life; Donald Fellowes, organist and choirmaster and desperately in love with Yseut Haskell; and Jean Whitelegge, a "plain but not unattractive" young student who fancies Fellowes and works as the secretary of the theatre club.  - The Case of the Gilded Fly
• When a heist goes awry she is rescued and transported out of time itself by the same motley garbed crew she encountered previously, including a woman she identifies as a future version of herself.  - Time Breakers
• He assembles a motley group of Confederates including former Soldier Lewis Paine and simple-minded David Herold.  - The Day Lincoln Was Shot
• This motley group, with the assistance of a contract killer sent by the mob to eliminate Kingsbury, put paid to those who would damage the environment and subvert the democratic process.  - Native Tongue (Carl Hiaasen novel)
• Ash and his motley crew of S-Mart employees confront Freddy and Jason at the Voorhees home where Freddy has already unleashed the full power of the Necronomicon, giving him reality-altering power.  - Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
• The motley group decide they need to stop him.  - One Good Knight
• The bathhouse provides a variety of peripheral services, including haircut, massage, shaving, fire cupping, even old-style pedicure, to a motley group of regular customers, many of whom are retired old Beijingers.  - Shower (film)
• In August 1939, a motley group of travellers find themselves in a small hotel in Bavaria, awaiting a delayed train to Switzerland.  - The Lady Vanishes (1979 film)
• On a whim, he accepts a job "digging holes" for mr Claude Ellwyn Overhill, who drives a motley assortment of riff-raff around the south, disinterring and relocating the denizens of graveyards that had to be moved to make room for development.  - Off for the Sweet Hereafter
• Inspired to spite the school's pretentious athletics program and its glorification of bullies like Barbour, assembles a deliberately bizarre and motley crew of six swimmers, including the cognitively slow Chris; the obnoxiously sesquipedalian Dan Hole; the bodybuilder and musician Tay-Roy Kibble; the rude, antisocial, and one-legged Andy Mott; the completely nondescript Jackie Craig; and the obese and insecure Simon DeLong.  - Whale Talk
• The first time we meet this motley crew is in the mines on Io.  - Escape from Jupiter
• She enlists the help of her friends, a motley crew of "little people" who include, Constance (Margaret Leighton) and Gabrielle (Giulietta Masina).  - The Madwoman of Chaillot (film)
• The motley crew arrives at Elmeri's father's site but are unable to extract a reasonable amount of gold from the river.  - Kummeli: Kultakuume
• Danny (Nick Giannopoulos) is a talentless entertainer who is hired by Marcus (Russell Dykstra) and his motley crew to turn them into the biggest kids' group since The Wiggles.  - The Wannabes
• Together, this motley crew set up camp in the harsh conditions of the Egyptian desert and "dig in" for the long haul.  - Easy Go
• This bus conductor lords over the family that has a motley cast to it - mother (Bindu Panicker), sister (Poornima), her husband (Innocent), son (Jayasurya), daughters and his own sister Selina (Mamta Mohandas).  - Bus Conductor (2005 film)
• En route to Mexico, the motley band of Americans becomes less mercenary when observing the brutal treatment of the peasants.  - Guns of the Magnificent Seven
• and the only hope for us all is a motley crew of so-called brothers and a power too terrifying to be used.  - Seven Brothers (comics)
• Hamnet, his Halflander son Hazard, and their hisser companion Frill lead the motley crew through the dangerous Jungle and numerous setbacks.  - Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
• Leading a motley crew that includes an Indian elephantarch to care for the creature, a Persian warrior, a Syrian sutler and a Greek philosopher, Leon sets out to cross the whole of the ancient known world from the Indus River to Athens.  - An Elephant for Aristotle
• Jon-Tom and his motley crew press on, confronting a forest of Fungoid Frankensteins on the Muddletop Moors, a parrot pirate on the high seas, cannibal fairies in the enchanted canyon, and the evil wizard of Malderpot.  - The Day of the Dissonance
• Leaf has ventured to the Middle House via portal and has joined forces with Suzy's band of motley Raiders in an attempt to infiltrate the Upper House, in order to prepare elevators for the Army of the Architect to get through to the Gardens.  - Lord Sunday
• A motley crew of Australian militiamen or 'chocos' from the 39th Battalion are stationed in a New Guinea village just after the Japanese invasion.  - Kokoda (film)
• Ackley, a communications expert to garrison Muc Wa with a half French half Vietnamese interpreter/interrogation specialist called Cowboy, a hardcore squad of Nung mercenaries and a motley mob of about 20 South Vietnamese Popular Force civilian "troops" armed with shotguns and old rifles with a sprinkling of machine guns attempt to create a defensible outpost at Muc Wa.  - Go Tell the Spartans
• His life thereafter is an odyssey through the "partisanka", the motley partisan movement, which includes Russians, Jews, Lithuanians and Poles.  - If Not Now, When? (novel)
• Tony and his dim brother-in-law Vinnie (Allen Garfield) put together a motley gang of thieves.  - The Brink's Job
• This motley crew is at first no match for Pellet or anybody else in the race, but tossing useless garbage overboard, a strong breeze and a large pair of pants enable Jack to enjoy a victory at sea.  - Summer Rental
• Complicating matters are the personal problems and backstage relationships that have fostered jealousy and petty squabbling and intruded upon any professionalism this motley crew can muster.  - Noises Off (film)
• She devotes herself to the moral education and feeding of this motley group.  - Viridiana
• Talbot begins by describing the passengers of all classes (getting a tour of the ship) and crew members, who encompass a motley yet representative collection of early 19th-century English society.  - To the Ends of the Earth
• Complicating matters is the motley group of cab drivers that he has working for him.  - D.C. Cab
• The next day, Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams), the nasally representative of Wundatours Travel Agency, and his seductive assistant, Moira Plunkett (Gail Grainger), welcome the motley passengers.  - Carry On Abroad
• It is depicted as an impoverished area inhabited by a motley band of people who have experienced failures but somehow have found their niche and a community of strangely kindred souls.  - Cannery Row (film)
• He does so, recruiting a motley crew of companions.  - Yellowbeard
• As he tries to dig up the murderer, he fences with a motley list of strange characters and hustlers, everyone from the astonishingly cruel man who took over his father's night club, to his father's ex-wife, who's more than willing to seduce Johnny to keep him off the subject of his father.  - Blue City (novel)
• The motley group uses their sport to enjoy themselves without drugs and to gain recognition in a peaceful way.  - Yamakasi (film)
• West is allotted a motley crew who are supposed to work together on his project.  - A Year in the Merde
• Finally he finishes and unveils his nymph statue, as commedia dell'arte players perform a motley dance.  - The Firebrand of Florence
• Heading south across the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command, they come across a bombed-out field hospital, where they pick up a motley collection of stragglers, among them British medical officer Captain Halliday (Richard Nugent), four Commonwealth soldiers and Free French Corporal Leroux (Louis Mercier).  - Sahara (1943 film)
• She resists the idea of joining Cecil's followers but changes her mind and declares herself "Demented forever", burning a brand into her arm and officially joining the motley crew.  - Cecil B. Demented
• The crew is a motley bunch, secretly led by the half-robot cook John Silver, whom Jim suspects is the cyborg he was warned.  - Treasure Planet
• The other members of his bench, a motley crew who call themselves "The Cabal" and who include men from Africa, the Far East and Europe, create a plot to capture silver illegally shipped from Central America by a Spanish Viceroy; they convince the Pasha of Algiers and their owner to sponsor this endeavor and negotiate for their freedom and a cut in the profit.  - The Confusion
• The film ends with the motley group riding on out of Belleville, and a flashforward to an elderly Champion reflecting on the adventure, as told to him by the then-deceased Souza.  - The Triplets of Belleville
• It includes (among others) a near-sighted pitcher named Rudy Stein (David Pollock), an overweight catcher named Mike Engleberg (Gary Lee Cavagnaro), a foul-mouthed shortstop named Tanner (Chris Barnes) with a Napoleon complex, an outfielder, Ahmad Abdul Rahim (Erin Blunt) who dreams of emulating his idol Hank Aaron, two non-English-speaking Mexican immigrants, a withdrawn (and bullied) boy named Timmy Lupus, and a motley collection of other "talent".  - The Bad News Bears
• Max arrives to see the facility under siege by a gang of marauders riding a motley collection of cars and motorbikes.  - Mad Max 2
• In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory.  - Stagecoach (1939 film)

Example sentences for "motley" in interesting articles

• So Yahoo had no overall mobile strategy, just a motley assortment of apps.  - Marissa Mayer Has Completed Step One
• Whilst in the past I’ve worked with designers who work across traditional graphic design disciplines—as Jetset do—at Makeshift we’re assembling a true full-stack team.A motley crew of generalists, each capable of handling everything from branding to UX and front-end engineering, to back-end and sysadmin.  - Everyone Does Everything: How To Work on Teams of Generalists
• Before long the bad guys, a motley crew that seemed to include giants and woolly mammoths, stormed the castle and began to bash people’s heads in like watermelons.  - Confessions of a mortician
• He believes it has a lot to do with business dynamics. The executive, a programmer for two decades, says that in the late ’70s and early ’80s, software drew a motley set of professionals from all kinds of fields. In the mid-’90s, as onsite projects increased dramatically, software companies started picking all the engineers they could as the US authorities granted visas only to graduates who had four years of education after high school. “After Y2K, as American companies discovered India’s cheap software professionals, the demand for engineers shot up,” the executive says.  - A myth called the Indian programmer
• Most of the combat troops I had been out on an operation, so this colonel mustered a motley crew of clerks and cooks and drove the sappers off, chasing them across tile rice paddies and killing dozens of these elite enemy troops by the light of flares.  - Why Men Love War (1984)
• "The Mancunians were the starting point for a colossal scheme of military engineering," he says, "and it would be impossible to say what would have happened underground on the Western Front without the dogged determination - and a shameless disregard of the rules - of John Norton-Griffiths."The most unlikely heroes of all, however, were the motley crew of Manchester sewer men."Suddenly sewer men that at home might often have been looked down upon as grubby, rough and ready industrial types were the most prized troops on the Western Front," says Banning.  - The sewer men who changed the war
• But, Punsari, a motley village in Himmatnagar, talks about wi-fi and optical fiber broadband network, its children spend best of their times in air-conditioned classrooms with CCTV cameras.  - The developed village - a village that puts metros to shame
• The executive, a programmer for two decades, says that in the late '70s and early '80s, software drew a motley set of professionals from all kinds of fields.  - Why There Are No Indian Software Startups
•  These are countries where, despite advocacy efforts by local and international groups, no progress has been made. The newcomers  A third, perhaps even more disheartening category, is the list of countries new to this year's index.  A motley crew, these nations have all taken new, harsh approaches to restricting speech or monitoring citizens: Russia: As RSF writes, Russia has been on a downward slope for more than a decade.  - A Short Guide to the Internet’s Biggest Enemies

Meaning of "motley" in English

• having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
  Examples
  - the painted desert
  - a particolored dress
  - a piebald horse
  - pied daisies
  
• consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  Examples
  - assorted sizes
  - miscellaneous accessories
  - a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music
  - a motley crew
  - sundry sciences commonly known as social
  
• a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
• a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
• a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
  Examples
  - he had a variety of disorders
  - a veritable smorgasbord of religions
  
• make motley; color with different colors
• make something more diverse and varied

Meaning of "motley" in Hindi

• रंगबिरंगा
• रंगबिरंगा ( Rangabiranga, rangabirangaa)
• भिन्न भिन्न रंगो का वस्त्र ( Bhinn bhinn rango ka vastr, bhinn bhinn rango kaa vastr, bhinn bhinn rango ka wastr)
• मिश्रण ( Mishran)
• विविधतापूर्ण करना
• रंग बिरंगा ( Rang biranga, rang birangaa)
• बहुरंग ( Bahurang)

Synonyms of "motley"

• multi coloured
• miscellany
• pied
• painted
• miscellaneous
• particolored
• multicolour
• multicoloured
• parti color
• smorgasbord
• multi colour
• multicolored
• multi colored
• salmagundi
• miscellanea
• multi color
• potpourri
• assorted
• piebald
• vary
• mixed
• mixture
• calico
• particoloured
• variegate
• variety
• varicoloured
• multicolor
• sundry
• assortment
• varicolored
• mixed bag

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