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- adjective
comparative form ofshady : moreshady
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Examples
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Ostensibly, this group's goal is to improve the community, but they get involved in shadier endeavors as well.
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Facebook claims that this will make it easier to figure out who is lusting after you, and that "shadier" visitors will simply learn not to be so creepy.
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Others became involved in shadier operations beyond Cuba.
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And a third staffed by redheads; that one, I suppose, would have to be a little shadier.
A holiday of the last resort Victoria Coren 2010
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UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves picks up the story of Nathan Drake, a fortune hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers.
Shambhala SunSpace » Rod Meade Sperry – From The Worst Horses Mouth 2009
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We may have to do a little rearranging this year and move the flower garden to the shadier spot and the veggies to the front (of the back yard.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron.
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You explore the shadier side of horseracing -- the gambling, the cruelty inflicted on the animals, the injuries, the steroids etc.
A Conversation with Jane Smiley about her novel Good Faith 2010
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The logic behind this new law is to treat used game stores in a similarmanner to the much shadier pawn shops and their sad second-goods trade.
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While the bid process was shady the insurance policies placed on the buildings afterward where even shadier and of course 3mos. later the total destruction of both buildings!
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