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shady
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shady character and a suspicious character
Fig. an untrustworthy person; a person who makes people suspicious. There is a suspicious character lurking about in the hallway. Please call the police.
See also: character

shady deal

Fig. a questionable and possibly dishonest deal or transaction. The lawyer got caught making a shady deal with a convicted felon.
See also: deal
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Described as "models of modernity" by Dickens, these men were celebrated figures in their day, and their prominence had a significant influence on later literature as the preoccupations of fiction writers shifted from shadily glamorous criminals to analytical detectives.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher wins Samuel Johnson prize by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Does anyone know anywhere I can park shadily with a view?
Letter: Mailbag - Shady nook required! by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
the belief in the Willie Hughes theory causes one of the characters to commit suicide and is shadily implicated in the death of another.
'Lovers and philosophers at once': aesthetic platonism in the ... by Evangelista, Stefano / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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