motleyadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈmɒt.li/us/ˈmɑːt.li/consisting of many different types that do not appear to go together:
There's a motley assortment/collection of old furniture in the house we're renting now.
The people who turned up for the meeting were a motley crew (= a group consisting of many different types of people).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- clunky
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- downmarket
- downscale
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- of sorts idiom
- tacky
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- weak sauce
- worst
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