| 单词 | motley-minded |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmotley-minded motley-minded adj. muddle-headed, nonsensical; fickle, inconstant, irresponsible; cf. sense A. 1b. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. iv. 41 This is the Motley-minded Gentleman. View more context for this quotation 1752 G. A. Stevens Distress upon Distress ii. 86 Each Brute, from Instinct, feels a separate Taste, But motley-minded Man mimics them all. 1872 J. G. Whittier Pennsylvania Pilgrim & Other Poems 32 His forest home no hermit's Guests, motley-minded, drew And held armed truce upon its neutral ground. 1896 Overland Monthly Sept. 314/2 Among the ‘Silverites’, so-called, we find a motley-minded array, evolving tenets and principles that challenge all established law and precedent. 1988 W. Kennedy Quinn's Bk. 256 The carriages..carry the motley-minded denizens of a nation at war and at play. < as lemmas |
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