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fly-by-night

adjective as in transitory

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Some of the groups have been around for decades, others are fly-by-night.

And not fly-by-night issues either, but stalwarts such as G.E., Citi, Google.

What gets me is, when you boil our two fly-by-night stories down, I've come here to be alone.

She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions.

Throughout the country local managers began to steal the Madison Square plays and put them on with "fly-by-night" companies.

Theres hundreds of these little fly-by-night mining camps in this here Western country.

Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger—a fly-by-night—a nobody!

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fly-by-night, such as: brief, cowboy, ephemeral, passing, temporary, and disreputable.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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