What does shady mean?
Definitions for shady
ˈʃeɪ dishady
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word shady.
Princeton's WordNet
fly-by-night, shadyadjective
(of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous
"a shady operation"
louche, shadyadjective
of questionable taste or morality
"a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"
fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspiciousadjective
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"
shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageousadjective
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"
Wiktionary
shadyadjective
Abounding in shades.
shadyadjective
Causing shade.
shadyadjective
Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
shadyadjective
Not trustworthy; Unfit to be seen or known.
He is a shady character.
Webster Dictionary
Shady
abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade
Shady
sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat
Shady
of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt
Freebase
Shady
Shady is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Woodstock and lies on New York State Route 212.
Rap Dictionary
shady
1- Associated with Shady Records or Eminem "Yeah... Shady... Aftermath... G-Unit! Unit!"-- 50 Cent, Just A Lil' Bit 2- A term used to describe someone who acts suspicious or is involved in illegal activities 3-somone who acts fu**ed up toward you is shady
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shady in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shady in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of shady in a Sentence
How many times are big corporations going to take advantage of us before we stop taking their word ? if these corporations wanted to be transparent about this practice, they wouldn't have started selling the data to shady third parties without a person's explicit consent in the first place. Why should we trust them now ?
The Attorney General should immediately appoint a special counsel to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden's business dealings with Communist China, joe and Hunter have been long intertwined with Beijing and profited off shady business deals with the CCP.
I really think, like everybody has their opinions on these shows and there is a multitude of them, but I don’t want to be like super shady, but you can name 10 people -- at least -- that have come off ‘American Idol’… that have legitimate careers, that put out music, that have changed their journey, their destiny, affected people’s lives.
The president walks on the sunny side of the street, and this takes us over to the shady side of the street, it makes us realize that springtime is likely not going to be a total solution.
Mark Hansen was a kind of a shady Hollywood mogul type, he owned a number of movie theaters in Hollywood and he was a multimillionaire. He also had a number of rooming houses and his own apartment just off Hollywood Boulevard… He was separated from his wife, who had a house on the Hollywood Hills with their two daughters. He had a great lifestyle in his apartment… where he would invite girls if he liked their looks… he would invite them to stay with obviously a promise that they were going to make it big as movie stars. Sooner or later, they would probably be booted out or end up as dancers in one of his nightclubs.
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- σκοτεινός, σκιώδης, ανέντιμος, σκιερόςGreek
- sombreado, umbroso, umbríoSpanish
- kyseenalainen, valonarka, varjostava, varjoinen, hämäräperäinen, varjoisaFinnish
- loucheFrench
- bieco, ombroso, losco, torvo, ambiguo, ombreggiatoItalian
- سێبهردارKurdish
- taumarumaruMāori
- umbrosRomanian
- подозрительный, тенистый, тёмный, сомнительныйRussian
- sjenovitSerbo-Croatian
- நிழலானTamil
- 陰Chinese
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