Synonyms for shady
ˈʃeɪ dishady

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1. shadyadjective

   Not trustworthy; Unfit to be seen or known.

   He is a shady character.

   Synonyms:
   seedy, dubious, dodgy, suspicious, sketchy, corrupt, equivocal

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1. shady

   Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.

   Compare synonyms for LIGHT.

   Synonyms:
   black, dark, dim, dismal, dusky, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, somber, swart, swarthy

   Antonyms:
   bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white

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1. fly-by-night, shadyadjective

   (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous

   "a shady operation"

   Synonyms:
   fishy, fly-by-night, funny, shadowy, suspicious, umbrageous, suspect, louche, shadowed

   Antonyms:
   unshaded, trustworthy, reputable, unquestionable, trusty

2. louche, shadyadjective

   of questionable taste or morality

   "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"

   Synonyms:
   fishy, fly-by-night, funny, shadowy, suspicious, umbrageous, suspect, louche, shadowed

   Antonyms:
   trustworthy, reputable, unshaded, unquestionable, trusty

3. 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"

   Synonyms:
   fly-by-night, louche, comic, laughable, rum, shadowed, untrusting, umbrageous, singular, odd, wary, amusing, comical, suspicious, leery, funny, mirthful, risible, fishy, peculiar, shadowy, mistrustful, suspect, rummy, curious

   Antonyms:
   unquestionable, trusty, unshaded, reputable, trustworthy

4. 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"

   Synonyms:
   dim, fishy, fly-by-night, shadowed, wraithlike, outraged, funny, umbrageous, indignant, vague, louche, incensed, faint, suspicious, wispy, shadowy, suspect

   Antonyms:
   unshaded, trusty, unquestionable, reputable, trustworthy

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1. shadyadjective

   Synonyms:
   shadowy, umbrageous

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1. shadyadjective

   Synonyms:
   umbrageous, shadowy, umbriferous, sheltered, screened, equivocal, questionable, corrupt

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1. List of paraphrases for "shady":

   shadi, shaded, murky, dubious, dark, suspicious, obscure, dodgy, unsavoury, questionable

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1. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   And we allow the discourse to make it sound as though it’s, like, these shady figures in the bush jumping out from a corner. These are young men. These are boys. We’re also not discussing the mental-health crisis that we are experiencing as a country as a result of the pandemic.

2. Mark Twain:

   There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

3. Piu Eatwell:

   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.

4. Theresa May:

   It feels like some major values that we all share in Europe have been undermined for whatever shady reasons, so to just, you know, blindly keep going in the direction of a cliff like lemmings, I don't get it. All I know is I'm not going to be a winner out of this situation.

5. George Santos:

   The ‘you’re fired’ slogan to the birth certificate – release of Obama’s, you know, shady birth certificate, so on and so forth.