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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

amoral, bent, blue, bosky, broad, clouded, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, curtained, dark, darkling, derogatory, devious, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, doubtful, dubious, dusky, equivocal, evasive, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, ignoble, ignominious, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indecisive, indefinite, indirect, indistinct, infamous, inglorious, insidious, not kosher, notorious, obumbrate, obumbrated, off-color, overshaded, overshadowed, penumbral, purple, questionable, racy, rotten, salty, screened, seamy, shabby, shaded, shadow, shadowy, shameful, shameless, sheltered, shifty, shoddy, sinister, slippery, sordid, spicy, suggestive, suspect, suspicious, tricky, umbral, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, undecided, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unpraiseworthy, unprincipled, unreliable, unrespectable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, veiled, wicked, without remorse, without shame

Dictionary Results for shady:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

shady
    adj 1: (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady
           operation" [syn: fly-by-night, shady]
    2: of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a
       louche painting" [syn: louche, shady]
    3: 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" [syn: fishy, funny, shady,
       suspect, suspicious]
    4: 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" [syn:
       shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Shady \Shad"y\, a. [Compar. Shadier; superl. Shadiest.]
   1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade;
      causing shade.
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            The shady trees cover him with their shadow. --Job.
                                                  xl. 22.
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            And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. --Dryden.
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   2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
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            Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for
            summer and warm for winter.           --Bacon.
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   3. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be
      seen or known; of questionable character; unsavory;
      equivocal; dubious, corrupt, or criminal; as, a shady
      character; -- of people or activities. [Colloq.] "A shady
      business." --London Sat. Rev.

            Shady characters, disreputable, criminal. --London
                                                  Spectator.
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   On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the
      shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. [Colloq.]
      

   To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be
      reticent. [Slang]
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