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Shadiness

noun
1.
Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.  Synonyms: shade, shadowiness.  "There's too much shadiness to take good photographs"
2.
Of questionable honesty or legality.  "The shadiness of their transactions"





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"Shadiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... guide-book with her father, and wanted to postpone the temple until she had it. Diana said it was too hot to attempt the Acropolis Hill. In the end they separated. Meryl strolled towards the Acropolis and Diana sought the cool shadiness ...
— The Rhodesian • Gertrude Page
... a more orderly body and far more obedient to the Chair than St. Stephen's. Personalities of the warmer kind are considered bad form, and one of the ablest men in the House has completely lost all political influence from the shadiness of sundry transactions which, in the sister colonies, would most assuredly have been forgiven long before they were forgotten. Of course the House is hot free from adventurers, but they are of the ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny


Words linked to "Shadiness" :   shadowiness, shady, semidarkness, unlawfulness, shade, shadow


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