'Shady' definitions:
Definition of 'shady'
From: WordNet
adjective
(of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady operation" [syn: fly-by-night, shady]
adjective
Of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting" [syn: louche, shady]
adjective
Not as expected; "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" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]
adjective
Filled with shade; "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" [syn: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous]
Definition of 'Shady'
From: GCIDE
- Shady \Shad"y\, a. [Compar. Shadier; superl. Shadiest.]
- 1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. [1913 Webster]
- The shady trees cover him with their shadow. --Job. xl. 22. [1913 Webster]
- And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. [1913 Webster]
- Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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." --London Sat. Rev.
- Shady characters, disreputable, criminal. --London Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 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] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shady'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amoral,
- bent,
- blue,
- bosky,
- broad,
- clouded,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- curtained,
- dark,
- darkling,
- derogatory,
- devious,
- discreditable,
- disgraceful,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disreputable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dusky,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- ignoble,
- ignominious,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indirect,
- indistinct,
- infamous,
- inglorious,
- insidious,
- not kosher,
- notorious,
- obumbrate,
- obumbrated,
- off-color,
- overshaded,
- overshadowed,
- penumbral,
- purple,
- questionable,
- racy,
- rotten,
- salty,
- screened,
- seamy,
- shabby,
- shaded,
- shadow,
- shadowy,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sheltered,
- shifty,
- shoddy,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- sordid,
- spicy,
- suggestive,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tricky,
- umbral,
- uncertain,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- undecided,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unpraiseworthy,
- unprincipled,
- unreliable,
- unrespectable,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- veiled,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame