See shady on Wiktionary
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"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"tags": [
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"word": "duvidoso"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "escuso"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
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"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "подозри́тельный"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tjómnyj",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "тёмный"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "turbio"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "sórdido"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "skum"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 1 2 83 8",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "suspekt"
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"ref": "2006 May 24, Saucy Jack, “BB7: Did Shabazz just deserve that?”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):",
"text": "They were being proper shady to him. Even if you don't like someone, locking them out, stealing their clothes and ganging up on them to take the piss is just childish.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Grace Dent, Diary of a Chav 2: Slinging the Bling:",
"text": "I didn't even ask her to be in the 'Increase the Peace' campaign, which was well shady, 'cos if anyone knows anything about rudes and violence and getting dragged into stuff it's Uma.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Chastity Danielle Infinity, Jamo Lorswal, A Rose So That It May Rain, page 155:",
"text": "\"Don't be shady,\" she said, \"You know I always pay up.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Mean, cruel."
],
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],
[
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"cruel"
]
],
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"(UK, slang) Mean, cruel."
],
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]
}
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"rhymes": "-eɪdi"
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}
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"Terms with Galician translations",
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{
"word": "keep shady"
},
{
"word": "on the shady side of"
},
{
"word": "shadily"
},
{
"word": "shadiness"
}
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],
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"tags": [
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},
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"glosses": [
"Abounding in shades."
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 40:22:",
"text": "The shady trees cover him with their shadow.",
"type": "quote"
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],
"glosses": [
"Causing shade."
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},
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"ref": "1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:",
"text": "you may have rooms both for summer and winter; shady for summer, and warm for winter",
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"Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat."
]
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],
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{
"text": "He is a shady character.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1991, “Blue Lines”, in Blue Lines, performed by Massive Attack:",
"text": "No sunshine in my life, the way I deal is shady",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22ⁿᵈ of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”\nJon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not trustworthy; disreputable."
],
"links": [
[
"disreputable",
"disreputable"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "corrupt"
},
{
"word": "dodgy"
},
{
"word": "dubious"
},
{
"word": "equivocal"
},
{
"word": "seedy"
},
{
"word": "sketchy"
},
{
"word": "suspicious"
}
],
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"ref": "2006 May 24, Saucy Jack, “BB7: Did Shabazz just deserve that?”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):",
"text": "They were being proper shady to him. Even if you don't like someone, locking them out, stealing their clothes and ganging up on them to take the piss is just childish.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Grace Dent, Diary of a Chav 2: Slinging the Bling:",
"text": "I didn't even ask her to be in the 'Increase the Peace' campaign, which was well shady, 'cos if anyone knows anything about rudes and violence and getting dragged into stuff it's Uma.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Chastity Danielle Infinity, Jamo Lorswal, A Rose So That It May Rain, page 155:",
"text": "\"Don't be shady,\" she said, \"You know I always pay up.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
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"Mean, cruel."
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"(UK, slang) Mean, cruel."
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zasenčen",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "засенчен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "stinný"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "varjoisa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "varjoinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "ombragé"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "ombrôs"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "sombrizo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "schattig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "skierós",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σκιερός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "skiódis",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σκιώδης"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skiṓdēs",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "σκιώδης"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "foscúil"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "scáthach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "ombroso"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "ombreggiato"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "sêberdar",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "سێبەردار"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "opācus"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "gesceadlīc"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "sceadiht"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "gölgeli",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "گولگهلو"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "sombroso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "umbroso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "umbros"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "sjenovit"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "umbroso"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "gölgeli"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "abounding in shades",
"word": "râm"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hvǎrljašt sjanka",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "хвърлящ сянка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "varjostava"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "schattenspendend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "Schatten spendend"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skierós",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "σκιερός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skióeis",
"sense": "causing shade",
"tags": [
"Epic"
],
"word": "σκιόεις"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "scáthach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "opaco"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "sjenovit"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "causing shade",
"word": "umbrío"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "senčest",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "сенчест"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "ombrós"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "ombrívol"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "stinný"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "sombrizo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "schattig"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skierós",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "σκιερός"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "scáthach"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "sêberdar",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "سێبەردار"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "opācus"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "taumarumaru"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "tūmaru"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "ombreux"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "gölgeli",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "گولگهلو"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "sombreado"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tenistyj",
"sense": "overspread with shade",
"word": "тенистый"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎmnitelen",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "съмнителен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nepočten",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "непочтен"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "pochybný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "podezřelý"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "suspektinda"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "hämäräperäinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "valonarka"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "kyseenalainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "louche"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "tosc"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "zwielichtig"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anéntimos",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ανέντιμος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "losco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "bieco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "torvo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "ambiguo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "anceps"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "szemrany"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "suspeito"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "duvidoso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "escuso"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podozrítelʹnyj",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "подозри́тельный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tjómnyj",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "тёмный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "turbio"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "sórdido"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "skum"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not trustworthy; unfit to be seen or known",
"word": "suspekt"
}
],
"word": "shady"
}
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