Adjective, : shady paths. ,a shady tree. ,shady dealings. From Dictionary.com.
The other is to keep it legal, if shadily close to the line. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Not Above Political Manipulation After All] Reference
Voted No on 8 despite being shadily confronted by a No on 8 volunteer. From Wordnik.com. [Tell Us Your Voting Stories, Part Two] Reference
Increasing numbers from the white-oppressor group are shadily joining the stream for political and social change. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE ANC,] Reference
Say your name is "Dave Liberal," and you're running for the Senate against shadily-funded plutocrat-favorite Jason Putz. From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: Ads Infinitum: Countering the Citizens United Plague] Reference
Those who do this are not 'anti-war' at all, but are shadily taking the other side in a conflict where the moral and civilisational stakes are extremely high. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
And what a lot of it comes down to is an incredible lack of respect for the NHL and its commissioner, who's being shunted aside while the (mostly) moneyed men go about their business (often shadily). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
The house stood roomily and shadily in ornamental grounds, with a lawn in front of it and a shrubbery at each side, an orchard behind, and a vegetable garden, the whole intersected by winding gravel walks, of which Mrs Murchison was wont to say that. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
The Sister drew the bed-clothes shadily round Charlie's face. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
His father, a philanderer, was barely and sometimes shadily employed. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
We got there at about midnight, a shadily lit passageway down to a smoky basement. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
QUITE shadily, someone sent us a clip of the brouhaha, but within minutes it had been removed. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
An exceedingly retiring public-house, with a bagatelle board shadily visible in a sawdusty parlour shaped like an omnibus, and with. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
If there is the least difficulty in supplying my place, or if the managers think I shall deal shadily with them by resigning before the expiration of my term, of course I go on. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
The really good have little idea how such fool's knavery looks to the shadily clever; it brings home to them the wrongness of wrong, disgusting them with it and with themselves, as no preaching in the world can. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Comrade] Reference
An exceedingly retiring public - house, with a bagatelle-board shadily visible in a sawdusty parlour shaped like an omnibus, and with a shelf of punch-bowls in the bar, would apprise me that I stood near consecrated ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
We already had a shadily-financed mega-mosque being built at Ground Zero by a developer with a criminal history and an imam who believes the United States, which should adopt the sharia legal system, deserved the 9/11 attacks. From Wordnik.com. [The American Pundit] Reference
As part of the deal, the disgraced businessman, whom prosecutors called a "sophisticated scam artist," also agreed to forfeit all the money he "made," as well as 12 watches and nine pieces of jewelry purchased with shadily obtained sums. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
The anti-hero, John Veals, is a shadily successful and boundlessly ambitious Dickensian figure who is trading billions and other characters include a teenage Muslim fanatic, a Polish footballer, a female tube driver, a literary critic, a care worker and a chutney tycoon. From Wordnik.com. [CommanderBond.net] Reference
It perfectly captures any number of universal Google experiences: shadily searching out How-To information for things pre-established How-To information shouldn't necessarily exist for, the trial-and-error process of using Google and the various misspellings the rest of the world makes with you, the whimsical nature of search results Google will "guess" for you, and finally, the widespread use of Google to search patently innocuous information, which, essentially, is what the internet (and Google) is more or less for. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
Saxony? taps shadily. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Another Titanic Mistake] Reference
Most shadily. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
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