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adjective

Shady adj. (compar. shadier; superl. shadiest)

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. "The shady trees cover him with their shadow." "And Amaryllis fills the shady groves."

Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. "Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter."

Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, Unfit to be seen or known; of questionable character; unsavory; equivocal; dubious, corrupt, or criminal; as, a shady character; of people or activities. (Colloq.) "A shady business." "Shady characters, disreputable, criminal."

On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. (Colloq.)

To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. (Slang)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shady" Quotes from Famous Books

... two a thousand things divide, Vast shady hills, and the rough ocean's tide. ("Iliad" ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... waterfall; huge combs of honey, hanging from shelving caverns along the cliff where the wild bees had stored their plunder for years. At last, as they stood before a drooping elder whose creamy blossoms swayed beneath the weight of bees, he halted and motioned to a shady seat ...

— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge

... has conveniently left narrow shelves, crevices, and less precipitous slopes here and there, which need only the application of the pick and shovel to be made passable even for pack animals. Where the trail winds into shady recesses, we find stunted fir and pine trees clinging to the crevices and stretching their roots down into the waste ...

— The Western United States - A Geographical Reader • Harold Wellman Fairbanks

... The cheerful hours of easy labor vary but do not destroy the pursuit of pleasure and of recreation. Youth in such a Utopia is a very springtime of hope: adult life a busy and cheery activity: and age itself, watching from its shady bench beneath a spreading tree the labors of its children, is but a gentle retrospect from which material ...

— The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice • Stephen Leacock

... York and called about him a quintette of gentlemen, each of whom had been with him and Senator Hanway in more than one affair of shady profit. Mankind does not change, its methods change, and trade has still its Kidds and Blackbeards. Present commerce has its pirates and its piracies; only the buccaneers of now do not launch ships, but stock companies, while Wall and Broad Streets are their Spanish Main. They do not, ...

— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis

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