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very moody. 3 fickle, volatile, capricious, mercurial, unstable,<br />

fitful, flighty, unsteady, changeable, erratic, uneven,<br />

inconstant, undependable, unreliable, unpredictable: Being<br />

artists, they are moody, and there's no telling if they will<br />

want to be interviewed today.<br />

moonshine n. 1 moonlight, moonbeams: Her hair reflected silver in the<br />

moonshine. 2 (stuff and) nonsense, rubbish, taradiddle, humbug,<br />

drivel, twaddle, balderdash, blather or blether, Colloq hot air,<br />

claptrap, pack <strong>of</strong> lies, con, bosh, gas, eyewash, hogwash, bunk,<br />

guff, piffle, hokum, rot, malarkey, bilge (water), tripe, (the<br />

old) song and dance, line, Brit tommy-rot, US apple-sauce,<br />

razzmatazz, jive, Slang crap, bull, hooey, Brit tosh, US<br />

garbage, BS, Taboo slang horseshit, bullshit: He fed her a load<br />

<strong>of</strong> moonshine about owning a big yacht. 3 poteen, Colloq chiefly<br />

US and Canadian hooch or hootch, white lightning, white mule,<br />

home-brew, bootleg: Government agents raided a still that<br />

produced 100 gallons <strong>of</strong> moonshine a day.<br />

moor° n. heath, moorland, wasteland, No. Eng. and Scots fell: <strong>The</strong><br />

police pursued the escaped prisoner across the moor, but they<br />

lost him.<br />

moorý v. secure, tie up, make fast, dock, berth, (drop) anchor; fix:<br />

<strong>The</strong> vessel was soon moored and the passengers disembarked. <strong>The</strong><br />

huge aerial is moored by cables.<br />

moot adj. 1 debatable, arguable, undecided, undetermined,<br />

controversial, doubtful, disputable, open to debate, at issue,<br />

indefinite, problematic(al), questionable, open (to question or<br />

to discussion), confutable, confuted, contestable, contested,<br />

unsettled, unresolved, up in the air, unconcluded: Whether he<br />

would be found innocent was still a moot point.<br />

--v. 2 bring up or forward, introduce, broach, put forward,<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>fer, posit, propound, advance, submit, suggest: It has been<br />

mooted that she was with the victim just before the murder.<br />

moral adj. 1 ethical; right, good, pure, honest, proper, upright,<br />

honourable, decent, moralistic, respectable, high-minded,<br />

virtuous, upstanding, righteous, principled, scrupulous,<br />

incorruptible, noble, just: She is one <strong>of</strong> the most moral people<br />

I have ever met. 2 ethical, moralizing, moralistic: Questions

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