having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I A Richards
You can describe a group of things as a motley collection if you think they seem strange together because they are all very different. a motley collection of vans, old buses, cattle-trucks, and even a fire engine. a motley collection/crew/assortment etc a group of people or things that are very different from each other and do not seem to belong together (Perhaps from mote)