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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



... plantation, to Betteredge's little sitting-room. My resolution not to enter Rachel's house is forgotten. I feel gratefully the coolness and shadiness and quiet of the room. I drink the grog (a perfectly new luxury to me, at that time of day), which my good old friend mixes with icy-cold water from the well. Under any other circumstances, the ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... lucid waters, coupled with the exceeding shadiness of the trees, and its very unusual solitude—I have walked it, I suppose, from end to end at least a hundred times, and I never remember to have met so much even as a peasant returning from his daily labor, or a country maiden tripping to the neighboring town—that gave its character, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various


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


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