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adjective

Shady adj. (compar. shadier; superl. shadiest)

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. "The shady trees cover him with their shadow." "And Amaryllis fills the shady groves."

Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. "Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter."

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." "Shady characters, disreputable, criminal."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shady" Quotes from Famous Books

... chosen the rooms and the neighborhood with great care. There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil. It was a shady street, its windows were heavily curtained; and over it hung the cloud of a respectability which has something to conceal. Yet it had the advantage of more riotous neighborhoods near by, and Eeldrop and Appleplex commanded ...

— Eeldrop and Appleplex • T.S. Eliot

... burdens. Just poets use figurative language. Ungrammatical expressions offend a true critic's ear. Weak critics magnify trifling errors. No composition is perfect. The rabble was tumultuous. The late-washed grass looks green. Shady trees form a delightful arbor. The setting sun makes a beautiful appearance; the variegated rainbow appears more beautiful. Epaminondas was the greatest of the Theban generals; Pelopidas was next ...

— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham

... to say, whenever she fell asleep in the day-time under a green tree, or on the shady bank of a stream, as she often did, that she had the brightest, most beautiful dreams—and she wished it was the fashion for people to sleep ...

— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz

... never-ending roadside red-brick cottages and villas, for we were not yet properly out of the hated biscuit metropolis. It was a big village with the houses scattered far and wide over several square miles of country, but just where the church stands it is shady and pleasant. The pretty church yard too is very deeply shaded and occupies a small hill with the Loddon flowing partly round it, then taking its swift way through the village. Miss Mitford's monument is a plain, almost an ugly, granite cross, standing close to the wall, shaded by yew, ...

— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... a pang that the whole of the park in which she lived was let out as grazing ground, and only trusting, as she beheld the groups of ruminating cattle, that the day might yet come for the antlered tenants of the bowers to resume their shady dwellings. The good man and his wife who hitherto had inhabited the old Place, and shown the castle and the pleasaunce to passing travellers, were, under the new order of affairs, promoted to the respective offices of serving-man and ...

— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli

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