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shady

[shey-dee]

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adjective, shad·i·er, shad·i·est.

abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.

giving shade: a shady tree.

shadowy; indistinct; spectral.

of dubious character; rather disreputable: shady dealings.

Idiom

on the shady side of, Informal. beyond (the specified age); more than: on the shady side of 40.

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Origin:
1570–80; shade + -y¹

Related forms

shad·i·ly, adverb

shad·i·ness, noun

un·shad·i·ly, adverb

un·shad·i·ness, noun

un·shad·y, adjective

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Example Sentences

There was a fellow round there who was a wonderful horse trainer, but good for nothing else, being shady in other ways.

By the same token, not all agents are shady operators.

Precise figures for a business as shady as drugs are hard to come by.

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There was a fellow round there who was a wonderful horse trainer, but good for nothing else, being shady in other ways.

By the same token, not all agents are shady operators.

Precise figures for a business as shady as drugs are hard to come by.

Moist, shady places such as streamsides and canyon bottoms.

These numbers surely were pulled out of a shady spot.

Handsome wood trellis turns a patch of backyard into a shady kick-back space more.

Some of those companies have engaged in shady behavior on previous government contracts.

The mansions of the moneyed set still dominate the town's shady side streets.

For shady clients, this is a far better proposition: what their bankers do not know, they can never be forced to reveal.

To keep their eggs safe from the sun's heat, they lay and incubate them in shady nooks.

They work to feather their nest after they are out of office, and cut more shady deals than ever.

All forms can be grown in containers to decorate a shady patio or deck.

They typically had to meet with shady characters in back alleys or participate in secretive, underground photo-mailing clubs.

Critics questioned the new lot's shady tactics as well as their religious motives.

Early hominins would have lived in these shady woodlands as well.

Useful for edgings in shady places, as ground cover, and as soothing contrast to brightly colored flowers.

Along the way, you will deal with a shady organization that wants to destroy the world.

When such practices shade into dishonesty is itself a shady area.

The next day, the saguaro becomes a cool, shady home for animals that live close to the desert floor.

Every inch of the garden designer's shady hillside retreat is a visual feast.

Odin gradually unravels the mysteries surrounding himself and the shady characters within his orbit.

Already this year, he has backed two ministers accused of shady dealings, both of whom subsequently resigned.

Sit inside at angular stainless steel tables, or outside on a shady terrace.

His rain forest has a lacy canopy, a shady understory, and plenty of orchids and tree ferns in between.

We went to the back, where it was still shady and probably a bit colder.

Yet his wealth is the product of some shady bootlegging.

The entire project from financing to construction is a shady practice and one would learn the truth if they dig deeper.

We're getting a few sent out earlyWe'll put them in the shady spot, hooked up to drip irrigation.

Many domain registrants do lie, including shady businessmen, individuals afraid of spam and those who want to remain anonymous.

The city's airport and banks attract plenty of shady custom.

It's accessible only by boat or stone paths and steep stairs crossing a handful of peaceful, shady private residences.

Howard created this shady oasis beneath a pair of apple and pear trees.

Shady secret agents betraying a lingerie-clad femme fatale spy and her comrades is spy-thriller stuff.

In a country where billions of dollars are siphoned off in shady gas deals, these charges seem not only political but flimsy.

The sheltered, shady area kept residents cool in the hot, dry desert climate.

Use in shady beds, along house walls, and in mixed woodland plantings.

Poorly trained, scaredy-cat guards and shady merc firms gave the first generation of private ship protectors a bad reputation.

First, parliament will have to make room for a lot of shady characters.

His anticorruption drive had stalled, undermined by the shady business dealings of his own extended family.

S preading slowly but surely by underground runners, these are invaluable ground covers for shady places.

Just pour in the seeds, rinse, and set in a shady corner.

Their proud, longstanding tradition of high-flying public speeches and shady backroom dealing is under fire.

Before the remodel, the site was too steep for play and too shady for anything but ivy.

But there are shady characters being caught, despite all that.

Malaysia also suffers from excessive government interference and shady links between politics and business.

We went down under the red crags where it's really shady and saw bighorn sheep.

Near the mall is a nightclub, now closed by police because its backers were shady.

Tracing shady transactions or the crooks who conducted them is all but impossible.

Put the female plant at one end and the male at the other, and you'll get a shady canopy overhead and lots of fruit.

The price you pay for anonymity is exposing your traffic to shady people.

There could be further revelations about exactly what he knew of his recruit's shady past, and when.

Attractive in wall crevices where it can be seen close up or in a shady rock garden add to my plant list.

Since then, there have been charges of shady accounting and backdated stock options.

To those who thrive in the shady dealings of the status quo he was and will be a threat.

Guzmanias and vrieseas make ideal container plants for indoors or for shady patios.

Keeping track of these shady characters will require becoming part of an underground information network.

These reports of shady activities do not always involve life-saving organs such as kidneys, hearts and livers.

Sometimes seen in desert areas where shady seeps exist.

They cared about their own, sometimes shady businesses, but didn't care about the effects of these policies on regular spaniards.

When planted under trees or in other shady locations, it needs less water than it does in sunny areas.

As long as these projects do not have shady financial backing and are adding value, this is great.

It takes advantage of salal's ability to thrive in lean soil on shady sites, and to be kept in bounds by pruning.

Spread the bulbs on newspaper and let them dry in a shady spot for a few days.

My back patio and shady corners of my back yard are filled with tiny cuttings taking root.

The new and improve pea arbor makes a shady hangout for the chickens.

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World English Dictionary

shady (ˈʃeɪdɪ)

—*adj* , shadier, shadiest
1.	full of shade; shaded
2.	affording or casting a shade
3.	dim, quiet, or concealed
4.	informal dubious or questionable as to honesty or legality

'shadily

—*adv*

'shadiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

shady

"affording shade, 1579, from shade (q.v.). Meaning "disreputable" (1862) probably is from earlier university slang sense of "of questionable merit, unreliable" (1848).

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"It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits."

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