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Definition of shady in English: shadyadjectiveshadier, shadiest ˈʃeɪdiˈʃeɪdi 1Situated in or full of shade. 背阴的;多荫的 荫翳的树林。 Example sentencesExamples - If you must delay the canning of other fresh produce, keep it in a shady, cool place.
- These two techniques combine to make the porch shady and cool.
- If you cannot plant immediately, place your plants in a pan of shallow water or cover their roots with moist sand in a shady place.
- If you're looking for a tough ground cover for a shady area, bugleweed is one of the best.
- It brings the feel of sunlight into a shady spot.
- Immediately take the person out of direct sunlight immediately to a cooler, shady spot - optimally an air-conditioned room - and call for medical help.
- Not only does this create a sturdy and attractive structure for vining plants to climb up, but it also provides a cool and shady nook underneath in which children can nap, read, or hold tea parties.
- Shan houses are traditionally raised up on stilts, with the area underneath used for storage or a cool, shady place to sit.
- Nick emerged from the shady inn into bright sunlight, blinking as his eyes adjusted.
- Put them out in a shady, protected place for a few hours (say, mid-morning to early afternoon).
- Set the pots in a cool, shady area, wet the soil, and cover with wood shavings or other mulch; water to make damp.
- Keep the structure low, and cantilever the roof overhangs to cool the house and create shady outdoor areas.
- If it's too shady they won't receive enough sunlight to make them flower properly.
- Neither do they need them for cooling off - they prefer shady places for that.
- Store the tree in water in a cool, shady place until ready to bring it indoors.
- During the dog days of summer, there's no finer place to relax than on a carpet of moist, green moss in the cool, shady rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula.
- Plant Hydrangea petiolaris in a large shady area as ground cover and encourage it to sprawl, not climb.
- I stood up and we walked back into the cool, shady pathways.
- She led us to the cool, shady, plant-filled sanctuary of a monk's cell.
- The only major pests of hostas are slugs, which thrive in the moist, cool, shady areas that hostas love.
Synonyms shaded, shadowy, dark, dim, sunless sheltered, screened, covered, protected, shrouded leafy, arboured cool literary bosky, bowery, tenebrous rare umbrageous, umbriferous, Cimmerian - 1.1 Giving shade from sunlight.
成荫的 they sprawled under a shady carob tree 他们懒散地躺在成荫的角豆树下。 Example sentencesExamples - It soared above the rest with long, shady branches, covered with leaves and an exotic type of fruit.
- I stared out at the gorgeous garden, covered with shady trees and thick grass.
- Ornamental pears along the fence will grow into a shady privacy screen.
- I placed myself under the cover of a large shady oak and stared out over the greens, my mind travelling to the most recent novel I'd been reading.
- The garden had always been cool, shady and inviting.
- Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
- The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
2informal Of doubtful honesty or legality. 〈非正式〉可疑的;靠不住的;不正当的 he was involved in his grandmother's shady deals 他卷入了祖母的不正当交易之中。 Example sentencesExamples - Although employed at a delicatessen near the East India docks, he is a shady character whose motive for being in the area I suspect has to do with the opium dens.
- And the conversation quickly turned to what a shady character he was.
- The first floor of the inn served as a sort of tavern, laden with long tables and many various shady or drunk characters, the majority of which laughed as they talked between droughts of ale.
- This is no cryptic message sent by shady characters.
- Film noir often involves an innocent hero who gets seduced or betrayed into a web of crime and deceit, usually led on by a ‘femme fatale’ character with a shady past.
- Their estimable credits aside, the two were classic movie-world shady characters.
- Because she did not suspect a shady deal was brewing, when she found out the loan was approved, she signed on the dotted line.
- He walked into the debriefing room and was greeted by General Li, a suspicious and shady character.
- This belongs to the secret world of state-to-state relations, with all their intrigues, shady deals and questionable trade-offs, which most governments hide from their citizens.
- If they could have made money without work they would have gladly engaged in shady deals or just acted as parasites, leeching off society or their parents.
- Noir films incorporated twisted stories of crime, shady deals, and dangerous dames exuding the air of mystery and evil and serving as a dark foil to our postwar patriotic afterglow.
- Both were highly corrupt and the smart writer proved an excellent handyman to put through their deals, shady and otherwise.
- Some of the people a little lower on the totem pole in Tony, Paulie, Ralph, and Johnny Sack's crews are present on the job site but are only there to run shady deals and as a formality.
- Even if this Alexander fellow had saved her from the shady Grim character, she doubted that he would have withheld information from the great Sir Marcus Grigsby.
- Places that dealt on the shady side of supply often went to great pains to know who they were dealing with, fearing the police, or worse, the Empire.
- We see drugs, shady characters, constant drinking, and endless cigarette smoke, but it's corruption once-removed.
- Mastering his distaste with a grimace, he has to do a shady business deal with an expatriate Cockney superlad played by Ray Winstone.
- There's a side plot involving some shady characters, but it's not explored or explained enough to hold these lackluster episodes together.
- Stilwell says there's one creepy scene in the show she actually finds hard to watch, featuring a shady character one of the dancers developed in rehearsals.
- And her husband wasn't the paragon she believed him to be; he'd been in a shady business deal with the man who killed him.
Synonyms suspicious, suspect, questionable, dubious, doubtful, of dubious character, disreputable, untrustworthy, dishonest, dishonourable, devious, slippery, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, irregular, potentially illegal, unethical North American snide informal shifty, fishy, murky British informal dodgy Australian/New Zealand informal shonky
Derivativesadverbˈʃeɪdɪliˈʃeɪdɪli Unfortunately, Reigart's hands are tied by Admiral Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida), a French NATO officer who shadily puts a halt to Reigart's rescue operations. Example sentencesExamples - Inside, the narrow alleys are tight woven, winding shadily between cliff-like walls of brown mud or sparkling white lime wash.
- It's not up to the vendors of generic hardware, and certainly not up to a record company that's shadily influencing those vendors in back-room meetings.
- Yesterday I went into the Used DVD Emporium, a seedy hole in the wall bespeaking a shadily acquired inventory of hot items for your viewing pleasure.
- The massive, brawny man peered at me in bewilderment as I had managed to stop his blade, and he withdrew, smiling shadily at me.
noun ˈʃeɪdɪnəsˈʃeɪdinəs He's making most people feel safe in an unsafe time and they're willing to put up with rather a lot of shadiness in such circumstances, if history is any sort of witness. Example sentencesExamples - If you're that sure that something's amiss, isn't the ‘evidence’ (inattention, shadiness, sparklessness, whatever) that led you - legally - to that conclusion sufficient?
- There was much shadiness in his management of those accounts.
- The practical implications surrounding the shadiness of the category of ‘social identity’ often pertain to information concerning public figures.
- There's this lo-fi attractiveness to the cassette: it's homemade, it's domestic, there's an illegality to it, a sort of shadiness.
RhymesAdie, Brady, lady, milady, Sadie Definition of shady in US English: shadyadjectiveˈSHādēˈʃeɪdi 1Situated in or full of shade. 背阴的;多荫的 荫翳的树林。 Example sentencesExamples - She led us to the cool, shady, plant-filled sanctuary of a monk's cell.
- Immediately take the person out of direct sunlight immediately to a cooler, shady spot - optimally an air-conditioned room - and call for medical help.
- Not only does this create a sturdy and attractive structure for vining plants to climb up, but it also provides a cool and shady nook underneath in which children can nap, read, or hold tea parties.
- The only major pests of hostas are slugs, which thrive in the moist, cool, shady areas that hostas love.
- If you cannot plant immediately, place your plants in a pan of shallow water or cover their roots with moist sand in a shady place.
- Plant Hydrangea petiolaris in a large shady area as ground cover and encourage it to sprawl, not climb.
- Shan houses are traditionally raised up on stilts, with the area underneath used for storage or a cool, shady place to sit.
- Keep the structure low, and cantilever the roof overhangs to cool the house and create shady outdoor areas.
- If you must delay the canning of other fresh produce, keep it in a shady, cool place.
- Neither do they need them for cooling off - they prefer shady places for that.
- It brings the feel of sunlight into a shady spot.
- During the dog days of summer, there's no finer place to relax than on a carpet of moist, green moss in the cool, shady rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula.
- If you're looking for a tough ground cover for a shady area, bugleweed is one of the best.
- These two techniques combine to make the porch shady and cool.
- Put them out in a shady, protected place for a few hours (say, mid-morning to early afternoon).
- Store the tree in water in a cool, shady place until ready to bring it indoors.
- Nick emerged from the shady inn into bright sunlight, blinking as his eyes adjusted.
- I stood up and we walked back into the cool, shady pathways.
- Set the pots in a cool, shady area, wet the soil, and cover with wood shavings or other mulch; water to make damp.
- If it's too shady they won't receive enough sunlight to make them flower properly.
Synonyms shaded, shadowy, dark, dim, sunless - 1.1 Giving shade from sunlight.
成荫的 they sprawled under a shady carob tree 他们懒散地躺在成荫的角豆树下。 Example sentencesExamples - It soared above the rest with long, shady branches, covered with leaves and an exotic type of fruit.
- I placed myself under the cover of a large shady oak and stared out over the greens, my mind travelling to the most recent novel I'd been reading.
- Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
- The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
- The garden had always been cool, shady and inviting.
- I stared out at the gorgeous garden, covered with shady trees and thick grass.
- Ornamental pears along the fence will grow into a shady privacy screen.
- 1.2informal Of doubtful honesty or legality.
〈非正式〉可疑的;靠不住的;不正当的 he was involved in his grandmother's shady deals 他卷入了祖母的不正当交易之中。 Example sentencesExamples - Some of the people a little lower on the totem pole in Tony, Paulie, Ralph, and Johnny Sack's crews are present on the job site but are only there to run shady deals and as a formality.
- This is no cryptic message sent by shady characters.
- And the conversation quickly turned to what a shady character he was.
- Their estimable credits aside, the two were classic movie-world shady characters.
- Mastering his distaste with a grimace, he has to do a shady business deal with an expatriate Cockney superlad played by Ray Winstone.
- Even if this Alexander fellow had saved her from the shady Grim character, she doubted that he would have withheld information from the great Sir Marcus Grigsby.
- We see drugs, shady characters, constant drinking, and endless cigarette smoke, but it's corruption once-removed.
- This belongs to the secret world of state-to-state relations, with all their intrigues, shady deals and questionable trade-offs, which most governments hide from their citizens.
- Noir films incorporated twisted stories of crime, shady deals, and dangerous dames exuding the air of mystery and evil and serving as a dark foil to our postwar patriotic afterglow.
- And her husband wasn't the paragon she believed him to be; he'd been in a shady business deal with the man who killed him.
- Both were highly corrupt and the smart writer proved an excellent handyman to put through their deals, shady and otherwise.
- There's a side plot involving some shady characters, but it's not explored or explained enough to hold these lackluster episodes together.
- If they could have made money without work they would have gladly engaged in shady deals or just acted as parasites, leeching off society or their parents.
- He walked into the debriefing room and was greeted by General Li, a suspicious and shady character.
- Stilwell says there's one creepy scene in the show she actually finds hard to watch, featuring a shady character one of the dancers developed in rehearsals.
- Because she did not suspect a shady deal was brewing, when she found out the loan was approved, she signed on the dotted line.
- Film noir often involves an innocent hero who gets seduced or betrayed into a web of crime and deceit, usually led on by a ‘femme fatale’ character with a shady past.
- The first floor of the inn served as a sort of tavern, laden with long tables and many various shady or drunk characters, the majority of which laughed as they talked between droughts of ale.
- Places that dealt on the shady side of supply often went to great pains to know who they were dealing with, fearing the police, or worse, the Empire.
- Although employed at a delicatessen near the East India docks, he is a shady character whose motive for being in the area I suspect has to do with the opium dens.
Synonyms suspicious, suspect, questionable, dubious, doubtful, of dubious character, disreputable, untrustworthy, dishonest, dishonourable, devious, slippery, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, irregular, potentially illegal, unethical
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