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shad·y

(shā′dē)

adj. shad·i·er, shad·i·est

1. Full of shade; shaded: found a cool, shady spot under some trees. See Synonyms at dark.

2. Casting shade: a large, shady elm.

3. Of dubious character, morality, or legality; questionable: "men who could indulge in any shady deal in downtown offices and still pose as beneficent angels ... on the golf course" (Louis Auchincloss).

shad′i·ly adv.

shad′i·ness n.

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shady

(ˈʃeɪdɪ)

adj, shadier or shadiest

1. full of shade; shaded

2. affording or casting a shade

3. dim, quiet, or concealed

4. informal dubious or questionable as to honesty or legality

ˈshadily adv

ˈshadiness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

shad•y

(ˈʃeɪ di)

adj. shad•i•er, shad•i•est.

1. abounding in shade; shaded.

2. giving shade.

3. shadowy; indistinct; spectral.

4. of dubious character; disreputable.

Idioms:

on the shady side of, older than (a specified age, esp. beyond middle age).

[1570–80]

shad′i•ly, adv.

shad′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	shady - (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady operation" fly-by-night untrustworthy, untrusty - not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"
	2.	shady - of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting" louche disreputable - lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
	3.	shady - 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" suspect, suspicious, fishy, funny colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech questionable - subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"
	4.	shady - 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" shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous shaded - protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"- Alexander Pope

shady

adjective

1. shaded, cool, shadowy, dim, leafy, bowery, bosky (literary), umbrageous After flowering, place the pot in a shady spot.
shaded bright, exposed, sunny, open, out in the open, sunlit, unshaded

2. (Informal) crooked, dodgy (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. informal), unethical, suspect, suspicious, dubious, slippery, questionable, unscrupulous, fishy (informal), shifty, disreputable, untrustworthy Be wary of people who try to talk you into shady deals.
crooked straight, ethical, respectable, upright, honourable, honest, reputable, trustworthy, above-board

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

shady

adjective

1. Full of shade:

shaded, shadowy.

2. Casting shade:

umbrageous.

3. Of dubious character:

doubtful, equivocal, questionable, suspect, suspicious, uncertain.

Informal: fishy.

Translations

ظَليل، مُظَلِّلغَيْر نَزيه

podezřelýstinný

lyssky

schattig zwielichtig

hämäräperäinenkyseenalainenvalonarkavarjoinenvarjoisa

louche ombragé

sjenovit

árnyas

sem er í forsælu; svalurskuggalegur

losco ombroso

frynset skyggefull

senčen

gölgeligüvenilmezmadrabaz

可疑的背阴的荫凉的

shady

[ˈʃeɪdɪ] ADJ (shadier (compar) (shadiest (superl)))

1. (= shaded) [place] → sombreado
it's shady here → aquí hay sombra
under a shady tree → a la sombra de un árbol frondoso

2. (= dubious) [person] → dudoso; [deal] → turbio, chueco (Mex)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

shady

[ˈʃeɪdi] adj

[place, spot] → ombragé(e)
under a shady tree → à l'ombre d'un arbre

(= dishonest) [deal, business] → louche, véreux/euse; [financier, businessman, lawyer] → véreux/euse

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shady

adj (+er)

place → schattig; tree, hat → Schatten spendend

(inf: = of dubious honesty) → zwielichtig, zweifelhaft; he has a shady past → er hat eine dunkle Vergangenheit; to be on the shady side of the law → dunkle Geschäfte treiben; on the shady side of forty (US inf) → vierzig vorbei (inf); there’s something shady about it → da ist etwas faul dran (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

shady

[ˈʃeɪdɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (place) → ombreggiato/a; (tree) → ombroso/a (fig) (person, deal) → losco/a, equivoco/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

shade

(ʃeid) noun

1. slight darkness caused by the blocking of some light. I prefer to sit in the shade rather than the sun.

2. the dark parts of a picture. light and shade in a portrait.

3. something that screens or shelters from light or heat. a large sunshade; a shade for a light.

4. a variety of a colour; a slight difference. a pretty shade of green; shades of meaning.

5. a slight amount. The weather is a shade better today.

verb

1. (sometimes with from) to shelter from light or heat. He put up his hand to shade his eyes.

2. to make darker. You should shade the foreground of that drawing.

3. (with into) to change very gradually eg from one colour to another.

ˈshaded adjective

(of parts of a picture) made darker.

shades noun plural

(especially American) sunglasses.

ˈshading noun

(in a picture etc) the marking that shows the darker parts.

ˈshady adjective

1. sheltered or giving shelter from heat or light. a shady tree; a shady corner of the garden.

2. dishonest. a shady business.

ˈshadiness noun

put in the shade

to cause to seem unimportant. She is so beautiful that she puts her sister in the shade.

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Avoid shady seats and sleeping until dawn in the harvest season, when the sun scorches the body.

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In the venerable suburb--it was a suburb once--of Clerkenwell, towards that part of its confines which is nearest to the Charter House, and in one of those cool, shady Streets, of which a few, widely scattered and dispersed, yet remain in such old parts of the metropolis,--each tenement quietly vegetating like an ancient citizen who long ago retired from business, and dozing on in its infirmity until in course of time it tumbles down, and is replaced by some extravagant young heir, flaunting in stucco and ornamental work, and all the vanities of modern days,--in this quarter, and in a street of this description, the business of the present chapter lies.

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Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe, It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside.

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Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore.

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He can picnic in shady woods, ramble through leafy aisles, and linger on mossy seats to watch the sunset.

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We followed the carriage-road, and had our usual luck; we traveled under a beating sun, and always saw the shade leave the shady places before we could get to them.

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Sergey Ivanovitch was all the while admiring the beauty of the woods, which were a tangled mass of leaves, pointing out to his brother now an old lime tree on the point of flowering, dark on the shady side, and brightly spotted with yellow stipules, now the young shoots of this year's saplings brilliant with emerald.

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The water is held in high estimation by the islanders, some of whom consider it an agreeable as well as a medicinal beverage; they bring it from the mountain in their calabashes, and store it away beneath heaps of leaves in some shady nook near the house.

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The seventh road was a good road, and curved this way and that--winding through green meadows and fields covered with daisies and buttercups and past groups of shady trees.

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In this scrap-book is such testimony relating to my shady side, as I have within the past ten years been able to cut from the columns of my competitors in the business of elevating humanity to a higher plane of mind and morals - my 'loathsome contemporaries.'"

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From the middle of the building an ugly flat-topped octagonal tower ascended against the east horizon, and viewed from this spot, on its shady side and against the light, it seemed the one blot on the city's beauty.

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What sunshine in a shady place was aunt Jane to Rebecca!

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