shady
adjective
abounding in shade.
shadiness
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a word derived from
shady.
Example Sentences
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Casting Michael Gandolfini as Fisk’s youthful lickspittle of a right-hand, Daniel Blake, further augments the heavy’s shadiness.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
The saga has spawned intense media coverage about how a well-heeled legal scion entered a world of mysterious deaths and financial shadiness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
And Mozgala portrays John as someone who is slippery, coy and clever, with a shadiness beneath.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
All of this shadiness brought up an important question for Oliver: is there any hope here?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2019
It is difficult to see the bird in the woods, on account of its sombre colours, and the shadiness of its dwelling-places; but its note, a soft long-drawn whistle, often betrays its hiding place.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
