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/ˈæ.lɔɪ/ · noun
A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal..
gold without alloy
Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]
Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure.
The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.
SETH KITANGE TELEVISION AND RADIO Upheaval at CBS. […] Bill Moyers, a CBS News commentator and special correspondent, expressed his dismay in an interview with Newsweek in which he said, “Television news has never been pure. It has always been an alloy of journalism and show business.”
to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper
to alloy pleasure with misfortunes
In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. But in sorrow she must be equally carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy.
Use alloy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Alloy means A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal..
Common synonyms include alloy, abase, bastardize, sophisticate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
gold without alloy
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