shady

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Perhaps best known as the shady but magisterial town boss Al Swearengen on HBO's bygone

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  1. adjective Full of shade; shaded.
  2. adjective Casting shade: a shady grove.
  3. adjective Quiet, dark, or concealed; hidden.

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  • Perhaps best known as the shady but magisterial town boss Al Swearengen on HBO's bygone —  Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • Then there are the "bad billionaires", which many refer to as the shady dealers of wealth that huddle around Wall Street and the world's financial markets. —  WALL STREET FIGHTER - Business News and Money Tips for Men
  • It is nice and shady, all the way It is enough to kill you! —  Melbourne House
  • Yet it was not without a certain thrill of exaltation that we strapped on our packs and stretched our legs after four days on the dusty plush And though ahead of us lay no shady, amiably crooked country roads and bosky dells, wherein one might lounge and dawdle over Hazlitt, yet we knew how crisscross cattle-trails should take us skirting down the river's sixteen miles of awe Five hundred miles below its source, the falls of the Missouri begin with a vertical plunge of sixty feet. —  The River and I
  • The brook was always cool and shady, and silvery with minnows darting over the shining pebbles beneath the clear water. —  The Voice of the People
 

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  1. = German schattig; as shade + -y. Cf. shadowy.
 

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