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Synonyms for motives
mo·tives
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List of paraphrases for "motives":
motivations, reasons, grounds, mobile, incentives, intentions, motifs
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#534 | mobile | |
#2204 | reasons | |
#5087 | grounds | |
#6907 | incentives | |
#11939 | intentions | |
#16894 | motives | |
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I am hopeful that their motives are right and not just based on the fact that they are trying to avoid the same types of issues that came down in Ferguson.
I will not speculate on the motives ... but this does not look like an accident and we have seen two of them.
Police Corporal Chris Manseau:
At this time we dont know what their motives are or what their destination is or what their thoughts are, thats a long way from northern British Columbia, about 3300 kilometers, over 2500 miles. Why they ended up in that small town, Northern Manitoba I dont know but again investigators want to speak to them and get to the bottom of all of this, put everyones mind at ease.
They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.
This administration is more likely to be accused of having bad racial motives than other Republican administrations.
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