mottle

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Not to mention that everything people watch on these TVs is compressed to into a mottled pastiche of crap.

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an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"

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noun

an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"

verb

mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

verb

colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mottle.

noun

an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"

verb

mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

verb

colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

Example sentences

Not to mention that everything people watch on these TVs is compressed to into a mottled pastiche of crap.

Dark skinned people age well because their skin color conceals the effects of aging skin that you can see in light colored skin: mottle, precancerous lesions, and wrinkles

\n Presently the cosmical cloud was disrupted by the stress of its expansion in \n conflict with the mutual clinging of its parts, disrupted into many million \n cloudlets, the swarm of the great nebulae.\n\n "For a while these were as close to one another in relation to their bulk as \n the flocculations of a mottled sky.