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Definition of Shady

1. Adjective. (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous. "A shady operation"

2. Adjective. Of questionable taste or morality. "A louche painting"

3. Adjective. Not as expected. "Suspicious behavior"

4. Adjective. Filled with shade. "Cool umbrageous woodlands"

Definition of Shady

1. a. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

Definition of Shady

1. Adjective. Abounding in shades. ¹

2. Adjective. Causing shade. ¹

3. Adjective. Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. ¹

4. Adjective. (slang) Not trustworthy; Unfit to be seen or known. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shady

1. shaded [adj SHADIER, SHADIEST]

Medical Definition of Shady

1. 1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. "The shady trees cover him with their shadow." (Job. Xl. 22) "And Amaryllis fills the shady groves." (Dryden) 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. "Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter." (Bacon) 3. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt. "A shady business." "Shady characters, disreputable, criminal." (London Spectator) On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. Origin: Shadier; Shadiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shady

shadowings shadowish shadowland shadowlands shadowless shadowlike shadowplay shadowplays shadows shadowy

shadrach shadrachs shads shaduf shadufs shady (current term) shaffle shaffled shaffles shaffling

shaffron shaffrons shafranovskite shaft bow shaft horsepower shaft louse shaft of femur shaft of fibula shaft of humerus

Literary usage of Shady

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"The environs afford a great variety of shady walks {eg to the ... Pedestrians may descend by a shady footpath (sign-posts). ..."

2. History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages: And Particularly in the by James Moore Swank (1892)
"In 1789 he emigrated to the United States, and soon afterwards located at a suburb of Pittsburgh now known as shady Side, where he built a small furnace on ..."

3. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1895)
"... and a shady Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it. Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath ; and a footpath " Firmly ..."

4. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1903)
"VI SUNSHINE IN A shady PLACE THE little schoolhouse on the hill had its moments of triumph as well as its scenes of tribulation, but it was fortunate that ..."

5. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1910)
"VI SUNSHINE IN A shady PLACE THE little schoolhouse on the hill had its moments of triumph as well as its scenes of tribulation, but it was fortunate that ..."

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