Motives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOTIVES in dictionary:

VERB:
• MOTIVE, to inspire to action, also MOTIVATE
NOUN:
• a reason for doing something
• a motif in art, literature, or music.
ADJECTIVE:
• producing physical or mechanical motion
• causing or being the reason for something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to motivate

Words related to MOTIVES

motive11 motived13 motiving14

Words that contain MOTIVES

locomotives18

How to use MOTIVES in a sentence

• It is our maxim that greed of wealth or lust of power are the chief motives of tyranny.
• They will all admire your action and applaud your motives, though, frankly speaking, I doubt whether any of us would carry your views so far as you have done.
• He abandoned the frigate from far higher and nobler, nay, glorious motives.
• But habit, you see, is an action in present circumstances from past motives.
• How far my desire has been accomplished God only knows, but I do know that the purest motives influenced me, and an honest purpose directed my steps in removing to Wilberforce.
• Actuated by the most laudable motives, Mudie cut off our rations of dirty stories, and for forty years we were apparently the most moral people on the face of the earth.
• I suppose that tasks such as these fall in the way of all human beings, whatever their motives for undertaking them may be.
• I have no self-interested motives in this matter, but am influenced solely by considerations of humanity.
• A large proportion of them have gone to the war from the best motives, and with clear appreciation of the nature and grounds of the contest.
• His motives were apparently those of pure kindness, and his demeanour was that of a gentleman.
• There is positively no class of writers entitled to higher praise, or actuated by nobler motives, than those who are now distinguishing themselves by their labors for Education.
• Actuated by such motives, she opened a small school in her native place, and subsequently taught in several neighboring villages.
• He felt helpless and dazed by the storm of conflicting motives.
• You said the other night that but few motives rule men.
• None of these motives singly, nor all of them combined, are sufficient to sustain us in this hour of trial, or to carry us clear through to the desired goal.
• In all such matters he must be not only a judge of others but an actor under the guidance of right motives and information.
• But human agencies achieve their legitimate results without regard to the motives that give them impulse.
• Various interpretations have been suggested for this work, with its preposterous mixture of pagan and Christian motives.
• Many motives besides his opinion of the man may have influenced him.
• It is striking that the great strides that prohibition has made of recent years, have been due to a sort of legislation and to business regulation that appeal to selfish motives.
• Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
• But this peace is still a long way off, though the Turks, from different motives, are ardently desirous of it.

Similar words containing MOTIVE without suffix s

motive11 emotive12 motived13 emotively17 promotive16 unmotived15 automotive15 locomotive17 motiveless15 emotiveness16 locomotives18 terremotive16 locomotively22 motivelessly20 electromotive20 emotivenesses18 magnetomotive21 nonautomotive18 promotiveness20 locomotiveness21 motivelessness19 promotivenesses22

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