How to use shady in a sentence

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• We saw a shady character slinking out of the office with some papers.From the entry character
• That shady trickster faked being a psychic advisor to spread misinformation and gain profit.From the entry trickster
• I found a likely spot under a shady tree for the picnic.From the entry likely
• He imprudently invested all his savings into a shady scheme and lost.From the entry imprudently
• Especially those who travel for spring break, travel in groups and generally watch out for shady stuff.2023 March 13, Cade Fisher, “How to do spring break the right way”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023. From the entry academic weapon
• This shouldn’t be happening, but somehow a lot of shady behavior is often swept under the rug.2022 April 28, @SpillTea, 52:41 from the start, in How Kesha's career died. She sent hidden messages asking for help., via YouTube…. From the entry SA
• Our outpost was in a trench under a huge, shady fig tree.2010, Ron Morkel, “Territorial Soldier”, in Rhodesia: Beginning to End, →ISBN, part 4 (Ronald Norman Morkel (1946- )), page 262. From the entry plum-colored starling
• They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass.2005 June 9, Michael M. Grynbaum, “An Entryway That Eats Together Stays Together”, in The Harvard Crimson, archived from the original on…. From the entry brick
• A bit of sticky fingering, a shady deal or two, life wasn't easy.1981, Ursula Holden, Penny Links. From the entry sticky finger
• He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC. From the entry connection
• Stoneroot is found in moist, shady woods from Maine to Wisconsin, south to Florida and Kansas.1907, Alice Henkel, American Root Drugs, page 58. From the entry stoneroot
• Getting on planes and driving across state lines to meet with shady organised-crime figures who claimed to know something.2026 July 29, Nicholas Muhoro, “Amy Billig Vanished While Hitchhiking Through Coconut Grove. Then the Calls Began”, in Skip Boring…. From the entry state line
• Spreading ground covers for shady areas include dead nettles (Lamium) and carpet bugles (Ajuga), with attractively variegated leaves.2021, Allan Haschick, Gardening in the Shade in South Africa. From the entry carpet bugle
• Late in the afternoon, I came to a shady spot where there was a picnic table—a rare luxury on the trail.2012, Cheryl Strayed, Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, →ISBN. From the entry yogi
• In fact, the shabbier and shadier the operation, the less blunt Martin can expect.” Queenie and Hellen exchanged glances.2011, Barbara Metzger, Queen of Diamonds. From the entry gemsmith
• They both know the shabbiest, shadiest fence of all.2011, Barbara Metzger, Queen of Diamonds. From the entry gemsmith
• I am hoping, maybe because I am roasting out here, that it is to accommodate some breed of shady tree.2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 95. From the entry blue gum
• Shady looking thicknecks accompany the businessmen and other types.2002, Peter Konecny, Gogol's Ghost, page 131. From the entry thickneck
• "You can cut my body down to-morrow morning, and then have it placed in some cool and shady spot.1910, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, E[dmund] Backhouse, China under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 137. From the entry to-morrow
• The downside of working with sketchy dudes on building sites and in greasy spoons was that they were sketchy, but they also knew shady things.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 201. From the entry sketchy
• Villanelle's kills are being ordered by the sort of shady extragovernmental organisation that might have seemed fanciful in a time before we'd heard of polonium.2018 September 2, Benji Wilson, “Jodie Comer on Killing Eve — the new TV series from Fleabag writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge”, in The Times…. From the entry extragovernmental
• The developers Hongwei knew in Shenyang were all gangsters, and when they weren't making shady deals, they were spending their nights in private gambling parlors.2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, “Kidnapped”, in In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Non-fiction), Penguin…. From the entry Shenyang
• And there is what the highest pagan wisdom ended in— yes, in calling up spirits, and the shady operations of wizards and wonder-smiths.2015, Louis Bertrand, Saint Augustin: Top Biography Collections. From the entry wondersmith
• Their reasons are mainly because they are simply people that I would consider sleazy— sleazy, slimy, shady, whatever term you want to use.2011, Gary Patella, Diary of an Evil Genius, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry sleazy
• Ursula and I went punting below that quaint bridge, where those Biotech Space Age cuboids now sit cloning humans for shady Koreans.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 168. From the entry science park
• Harkening back to a time when men like David Wright made furniture under a shady tree, this shaving horse could have been made centuries ago.2004, Lon Schleining, The Workbench: A Complete Guide to Creating Your Perfect Bench, page 189. From the entry shaving horse
• The rogues among the horses and mules sought every chance to break the line and hide under shady trees where sweet grass grew.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 7. From the entry rogue
• "The alternative would have been to let the country believe that there were all kinds of shady, nefarious bits of commess going on inside here," he said.2012 April 10, “ASP Maharaj is new SSA director”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express. From the entry commess
• A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.2010, Luke Dixon, Khartoum, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry go
• Through the open door Clement sees the girls in the shady shelter shed drinking daintily from the bubble taps and dabbing at their mouths with their crumpled white hankies.2008, Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row. From the entry bubble tap
• Its shady recesses would then harbor that special boletic reek which makes a Russian’s nostrils dilate— a dark, dank, satisfying blend of damp moss, rich earth, rotting leaves.1947, Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (1979 Paragon paperback), page 47. From the entry boletic
• Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.1909, Eric Parker, chapter XXIII, in Highways and Byways in Surrey. From the entry epitaph
• They formed the boundary lines or marks between adjoining parishes, and when the bounds were beaten the parson was wont to deliver his homily beneath the shady boughs.1900, George Morley, “Gospel Oaks”, in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country: The Language; the Superstitions; the Customs…. From the entry greenwood

Meaning of shady

1. adjective Abounding in shades.
2. adjective Causing shade.
3. adjective Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.

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Questions about shady in a sentence

How do you use shady in a sentence?

Shady is used as an adjective. For example: “He is a shady character.”

What is a short sentence with shady?

“He is a shady character.”

What does shady mean?

Shady means abounding in shades.