shady
shay dee
- s (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous
a shady operation - s of questionable taste or morality
- s not as expected
a shady deal - s filled with shade
the shady side of the street
- Sugary white sand gleams under the bright Yucatan sun, aquamarine water teems with tropical fish and lazy sea turtles, cold Mexican beer beckons beneath the shady thatch of palapas .
- It was an extraordinary year for breakout shows and showbiz breakups, for hot business deals and shady business dealings, and for the queens of film and fools of sport.
- The accounts were purportedly created to hold bribes from a 1991 sale of warships to Taiwan, among other shady income.