Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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moth +‎ -like

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Examples

  • That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"

    NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010

  • That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"

    NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010

  • That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"

    NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010

  • That new woodpecker that just flew off: Was its flight pattern "mothlike" or "undulating?"

    NYT > Technology By BOB TEDESCHI 2010

  • The bright lights darkened with the shadows of people who blundered mothlike against me.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Part of that connection lies in the fact that while the people in the audience are watching the person on stage, a little mothlike voice inside each of them is saying, "Maybe I could do this, too."

    GOOD Magazine: Burned by Desire 2008

  • The bright lights darkened with the shadows of people who blundered mothlike against me.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The bright lights darkened with the shadows of people who blundered mothlike against me.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Kyle glanced over at Lady-Bugger flapping his cape mothlike in front of the headlights.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

  • Kyle glanced over at Lady-Bugger flapping his cape mothlike in front of the headlights.

    RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005

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