adjective
- Of businesses and businessmen. ( unscrupulous)
- usage: "a shady operation"
- synonyms: fly-by-night
- Of questionable taste or morality.
- usage: "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"
- synonyms: louche
- Not as expected.
- usage: "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
- synonyms: fishy, funny, suspect, suspicious
- Filled with shade.
- usage: "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"
- synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous
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