Synonyms for fly-by-night
fly-by-night

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1. fly-by-nightadjective

   a debtor who flees to avoid paying

   Antonyms:
   trustworthy, lasting, permanent, trusty

2. fly-by-night, shadyadjective

   (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous

   "a shady operation"

   Synonyms:
   fishy, shady, funny, shadowy, suspicious, umbrageous, suspect, louche, shadowed

   Antonyms:
   trusty, lasting, permanent, trustworthy

3. fly-by-nightadjective

   ephemeral

   "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"

   Synonyms:
   shady

   Antonyms:
   permanent, trustworthy, lasting, trusty

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1. Theresa Cardinal Brown:

   These are not some fly-by-night universities, these aren't scams, these are legit universities who would normally have in-person curricula but for coronavirus, the bigger issue is some of these countries have travel restrictions on and they can't go home, so what do they do then ?

2. Patrick Njoroge:

   What I think is worrisome is a lot of products that are coming in a sort of a fly-by-night operation and you only hear about it because somebody gets burned.

3. Upendra Tripathy:

   There is always a tradeoff, there can be a relaxed condition so that more people can participate and there is another where you can make sure fly-by-night operators can't come in. It's an ongoing process and we are open to suggestions.