Usually means: Characterized by deceitfulness or secrecy.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shady: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shady: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shady: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shady: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shady: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shady, shady: Wordnik
  7. shady: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shady, shady: Wiktionary
  9. shady: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shady: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shady: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shady: Dictionary.com
  13. shady: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shady: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shady: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shady: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shady: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shady: Rhymezone
  19. Shady: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shady: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Shady: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. shady: Free Dictionary
  23. shady: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shady: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. shady: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shady: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shady: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shady, shady: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Abounding in shades.
adjective:  Causing shade.
adjective:  Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
adjective:  (informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
adjective:  (UK, slang) Mean, cruel.
noun:  A surname.

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