📚 Shady, adjective. 🔉 /ˈʃeɪdi/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): Of doubtful honesty or legality. ❗️ Examples: 1. He was involved in his grandmother's shady deals. 2. This belongs to the secret world of state-to-state relations, with all their intrigues, shady deals and questionable trade-offs, which most governments hide from their citizens. 3. Because she did not suspect a shady deal was brewing, when she found out the loan was approved, she signed on the dotted line. 4. He walked into the debriefing room and was greeted by General Li, a suspicious and shady character. 5. Although employed at a delicatessen near the East India docks, he is a shady character whose motive for being in the area I suspect has to do with the opium dens. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic