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adjective

Shady adj. (compar. shadier; superl. shadiest)

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. "The shady trees cover him with their shadow." "And Amaryllis fills the shady groves."

Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. "Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter."

Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, Unfit to be seen or known; of questionable character; unsavory; equivocal; dubious, corrupt, or criminal; as, a shady character; of people or activities. (Colloq.) "A shady business." "Shady characters, disreputable, criminal."

On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. (Colloq.)

To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. (Slang)

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"Shady" Quotes from Famous Books

... will not grow in sand; but, as it is rather a shady place, and you can water them occasionally, they will keep green and bright a good many days, and then, you know, you can get ...

— Rollo at Work • Jacob Abbott

... been explaining, the rapid feet of the two walkers had taken them past the Hoops Inn, and to the opening of a rough shady lane which made a short cut to the grounds of Stowe Manor, as the Templestowes' ...

— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

... walk over to the lake," the girl suggested gently, as if anxious to humor some incomprehensible child. "There is a lovely ravine we can explore, all cool and shady, and this sun is ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... which the mountain stretches down close to the lake. That plain is covered with the tree called Doum (Arabic) or Theder (Arabic), which bears a small yellow fruit like the Zaarour. It was now about mid-day, and the sun intensely hot, we therefore looked out for a shady spot, and reposed under a very large fig-tree, at the foot of which a rivulet of sweet water gushes out from beneath the rocks, and falls into the lake at a few hundred paces distant. The tree has given its name to the ...

— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt

... she took some bread in her hand, and hastened to the groves to pluck the cooling and delicious fruits whereof there was so marvelous an abundance. She seated herself on a bed of wild flowers on the shady side of a citron and orange grove, surrounded by a perfumed air. Before her stretched the valley, like a vast carpet of bright green velvet fantastically embroidered with flowers of a thousand varied hues. And in ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

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