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very moody. 3 fickle, volatile, capricious, mercurial, unstable,
fitful, flighty, unsteady, changeable, erratic, uneven,
inconstant, undependable, unreliable, unpredictable: Being
artists, they are moody, and there's no telling if they will
want to be interviewed today.
moonshine n. 1 moonlight, moonbeams: Her hair reflected silver in the
moonshine. 2 (stuff and) nonsense, rubbish, taradiddle, humbug,
drivel, twaddle, balderdash, blather or blether, Colloq hot air,
claptrap, pack of lies, con, bosh, gas, eyewash, hogwash, bunk,
guff, piffle, hokum, rot, malarkey, bilge (water), tripe, (the
old) song and dance, line, Brit tommy-rot, US apple-sauce,
razzmatazz, jive, Slang crap, bull, hooey, Brit tosh, US
garbage, BS, Taboo slang horseshit, bullshit: He fed her a load
of moonshine about owning a big yacht. 3 poteen, Colloq chiefly
US and Canadian hooch or hootch, white lightning, white mule,
home-brew, bootleg: Government agents raided a still that
produced 100 gallons of moonshine a day.
moor° n. heath, moorland, wasteland, No. Eng. and Scots fell: The
police pursued the escaped prisoner across the moor, but they
lost him.
moorý v. secure, tie up, make fast, dock, berth, (drop) anchor; fix:
The vessel was soon moored and the passengers disembarked. The
huge aerial is moored by cables.
moot adj. 1 debatable, arguable, undecided, undetermined,
controversial, doubtful, disputable, open to debate, at issue,
indefinite, problematic(al), questionable, open (to question or
to discussion), confutable, confuted, contestable, contested,
unsettled, unresolved, up in the air, unconcluded: Whether he
would be found innocent was still a moot point.
--v. 2 bring up or forward, introduce, broach, put forward,
proffer, posit, propound, advance, submit, suggest: It has been
mooted that she was with the victim just before the murder.
moral adj. 1 ethical; right, good, pure, honest, proper, upright,
honourable, decent, moralistic, respectable, high-minded,
virtuous, upstanding, righteous, principled, scrupulous,
incorruptible, noble, just: She is one of the most moral people
I have ever met. 2 ethical, moralizing, moralistic: Questions