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Shadiness

Shadiness \Shad"i*ness\, n. Quality or state of being shady.

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shadiness

n. The property of being shady.

WordNet
shadiness

n. relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take good photographs" [syn: shade, shadowiness]

Usage examples of "shadiness".

No, better to go to a country full of men on the run and smugglers and (so he had heard) artistic homosexuals, where English, language of international shadiness, was spoken and understood, and where at least he might hide (even out of doors.

The world was terrible really, full of cheating and shadiness, as much in low as in high places.

In spite of those terrible clothes, in spite of the aura of shadiness, it could still happen.

In middle life he had bought the fleet of a bankrupt trading company, and by business methods which were not above a suspicion of shadiness he had throttled competition and added to his fleet until he was now one of the most powerful men in the state.