Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of shade; shaded: synonym: dark.
- adjective Casting shade.
- adjective Of dubious character, morality, or legality; questionable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with or affording shade.
- Sheltered from glare or sultry heat; shaded: as, a shady place.
- Such as cannot bear the light; of doubtful honesty or morality: as, a shady transaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
- adjective Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
- adjective colloq., colloq., colloq. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness
- adjective [Colloq.] on the thither side of; as,
on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. - adjective [Slang] to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Abounding in shades.
- adjective Causing shade.
- adjective Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
- adjective slang Not trustworthy; Unfit to be seen or known.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous
- adjective filled with shade
- adjective not as expected
- adjective of questionable taste or morality
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over the years, Bud Billings had some -- well, I mean, I ` ll use the term shady, maybe operating on the fringe of legality, with the used car business, pawnshops, running strip joints, that sort of thing.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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I wear my seatbelt, don't smoke, eat healthy, use a water filter and carry a dummy wallet with fake credit cards and funny money whenever I'm in "shady" areas and hope I get pick pocketed.
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