shadily
- a word derived from shady.
Example Sentences
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In Fitzgerald’s classic book, Gatsby is a man who successfully, if shadily, works his way to a fortune, which he spends on a Long Island mansion where he hosts extravagant soirees.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023
Campus leaders tolerated coaches who were repeat offenders and lunged at big cash deals with sneaker companies they knew were operating shadily.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2018
Meanwhile there are flip-phone calls to answer, shadily suppressed court documents to requisition, and whole library shelves of clergy directories to comb through for evidence of systemic malfeasance.
From Slate • Nov. 5, 2015
NBC then very publicly and shadily wronged her, leaking rumors about her job status to the press, rumors that Curry told USA Today “hurt deeply.”
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2012
An exceedingly retiring public-house, with a bagatelle-board shadily visible in a sawdusty parlour shaped like an omnibus, and with a shelf of punch-bowls in the bar, would apprise me that I stood near consecrated ground.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
