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shadiness

NOUN

indirection

Synonyms

STRONG

artifice bunk cheating chicane chicanery corruption craft craftiness criminality crookedness cunning deceit deviousness dishonesty double-dealing duplicity faithlessness falsehood falsity flimflam fraud fraudulence graft guile hocus-pocus infamy infidelity insidiousness mendacity perfidiousness perfidy racket rascality shiftiness slyness sneakiness stealing swindle treachery trickery trickiness unscrupulousness wiliness

WEAK

fourberie hanky-panky improbity sharp practice underhandedness

Antonyms

STRONG

artlessness constancy fairness faithfulness fidelity forthrightness frankness goodness honesty honor innocence loyalty openness reality sincerity truth truthfulness

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Casting Michael Gandolfini as Fisk’s youthful lickspittle of a right-hand, Daniel Blake, further augments the heavy’s shadiness.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

The trial has spawned intense media coverage — including true-crime TV series and podcasts — about how a well-heeled legal scion entered a world of mysterious deaths and financial shadiness.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023

All of this shadiness brought up an important question for Oliver: is there any hope here?

From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2019

Screenshots are also the weapon of choice for all manner of internet shadiness.

From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018

It was an illuminated miniature, framed in by the dark margin of the window, the keen-edged shadiness of which emphasized by contrast the softness of the objects enclosed.

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

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