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SHADY
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Irregular inflected forms: shadier , shadiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with shade
Example:
cool umbrageous woodlands
Synonyms:
shadowed; shadowy; shady; umbrageous
Classified under:
Similar:
shaded (protected from heat and light with shade or shadow)
Derivation:
shade; shadiness (relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of questionable honesty or legality
Example:
He established a dummy company through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers
Classified under:
Similar:
dishonest; dishonorable (deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not as expected
Example:
suspicious behavior
Synonyms:
fishy; funny; shady; suspect; suspicious
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
questionable (subject to question)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
shadiness (questionable honesty or legality)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Quiet, dark, or concealed
Example:
a shady part of town
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
concealed (hidden on any grounds for any motive)
Context examples:
A young party is always provided with a shady lane.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was a rather pretty little picture, for the sisters sat together in the shady nook, with sun and shadow flickering over them, the aromatic wind lifting their hair and cooling their hot cheeks, and all the little wood people going on with their affairs as if these were no strangers but old friends.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then I sat down in my shady corner, looking up at the sunlight on the opposite chimney-pots, and thinking about Dora; until Mr. Spenlow came in, crisp and curly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was shady enough in the alcove, but I declare I quite dreaded the coming home again.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But the 'up again and take another' spirit was as strong in Jo as in Jack, so she scrambled up on the shady side this time and got more booty, but nearly left behind her what was far more precious than the moneybags.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grass of that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing half so quiet as its tombstones.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At Avigdor's she found the precious home letters and, giving the reins to Laurie, read them luxuriously as they wound up the shady road between green hedges, where tea roses bloomed as freshly as in June.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with a balustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost as easily; and into a shady old drawing-room, lighted by some three or four of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street: which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of the same trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in the ceiling.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
