Thesaurus / fly by night
FEEDBACK- as inimprovised
- as ininsubstantial
- as inirresponsible
- as inshifty
- as inshort-lived
- as inslippery
- as inslipshod
- as intransient/transitory
- as intreacherous
- as inundependable
- as inunethical
- as inunreliable
- as inunsure
- as inuntrustworthy
- as invagabond
- as intransient
- as intransitory
- as indubious
- as infly-by-night
- as infugitive
synonyms for fly by night
synonyms for fly by night
- fanciful
- flimsy
- illusory
- puny
- tenuous
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- aerial
- airy
- chimerical
- decrepit
- ephemeral
- false
- feeble
- fly-by-night
- fragile
- frail
- idle
- immaterial
- imponderable
- incorporeal
- infirm
- intangible
- metaphysical
- petty
- poor
- slender
- slight
- thin
- too little too late
- unsound
- capricious
- immature
- immoral
- thoughtless
- carefree
- devil-may-care
- feckless
- fickle
- flighty
- fly-by-night
- giddy
- harebrained
- ill-considered
- incautious
- lax
- loose
- no-account
- rash
- scatterbrained
- shiftless
- unaccountable
- unanswerable
- uncareful
- undependable
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unstable
- untrustworthy
- wild
- cagey
- crafty
- shrewd
- slippery
- sneaky
- tricky
- wily
- collusive
- conniving
- contriving
- crooked
- cunning
- devious
- dishonest
- dodging
- duplicitous
- elusive
- equivocating
- evasive
- fly-by-night
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- insidious
- lying
- mendacious
- prevaricative
- prevaricatory
- roguish
- scheming
- shady
- shuffling
- slick
- slimy
- sly
- treacherous
- underhand
- unhonest
- unprincipled
- untruthful
- brief
- ephemeral
- fleeting
- momentary
- short-term
- temporary
- transitory
- deciduous
- evanescent
- fly-by-night
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gone in a heartbeat
- impermanent
- of short duration
- over in a heartbeat
- passing
- quick
- short
- short-haul
- short-run
- transient
- elusive
- shifty
- slick
- smooth
- treacherous
- tricky
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- unstable
- cagey
- changeable
- crafty
- cunning
- devious
- dishonest
- duplicitous
- evasive
- false
- fly-by-night
- foxy
- inconstant
- insecure
- mutable
- slithery
- sneaky
- two-faced
- unsteady
- untrustworthy
- variable
- bedraggled
- botched
- disheveled
- faulty
- fly-by-night
- fouled-up
- haphazard
- imperfect
- inaccurate
- inexact
- junky
- loose
- messed-up
- messy
- neglected
- negligent
- raunchy
- screwed-up
- scrubby
- scruffy
- shabby
- shoddy
- slapdash
- sloppy
- slovenly
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- unkempt
- unmeticulous
- unsystematic
- unthorough
- untidy
- changeable
- deciduous
- emigrating
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- flash
- fleeting
- flitting
- fly-by-night
- flying
- fugacious
- fugitive
- going by
- impermanent
- insubstantial
- migrating
- momentary
- moving
- passing
- provisional
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- temporal
- transmigratory
- unstable
- vacating
- volatile
- slippery
- tricky
- unreliable
- betraying
- catchy
- deceitful
- deceptive
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- false-hearted
- fly-by-night
- insidious
- misleading
- perfidious
- recreant
- shifty
- slick
- snake in the grass
- traitorous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- two-timing
- undependable
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- unreliable
- bum
- capricious
- careless
- changeable
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fly-by-night
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- loose
- no bargain
- no-good
- treacherous
- trick
- tricky
- trustless
- unassured
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- unsound
- unstable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- variable
- corrupt
- illegal
- improper
- unfair
- unprofessional
- unscrupulous
- wrong
- cheating
- crooked
- dirty
- dirty-dealing
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- double-crossing
- fake
- fishy
- flimflam
- fly-by-night
- mercenary
- shady
- sharp
- slick
- slippery
- sneaky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- underhand
- underhanded
- unprincipled
- capricious
- deceptive
- dubious
- false
- fickle
- inaccurate
- irresponsible
- treacherous
- tricky
- uncertain
- unsound
- unstable
- untrustworthy
- undependable
- deceitful
- delusive
- disreputable
- erroneous
- fake
- fallible
- fly-by-night
- furtive
- hallucinatory
- hollow
- implausible
- inconstant
- makeshift
- meretricious
- mistaken
- pretended
- pseudo
- questionable
- sham
- shifty
- specious
- unconvincing
- underhand
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unsure
- untrue
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- distrustful
- dubious
- hesitant
- indecisive
- mistrustful
- shaky
- skeptical
- suspicious
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconvinced
- undecided
- betwixt and between
- borderline
- fluctuant
- fly-by-night
- iffy
- in a quandary
- indeterminate
- irresolute
- lacking
- open
- problematic
- rootless
- touch and go
- unassured
- unconfident
- undependable
- unreliable
- unstable
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- up for grabs
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wimpy
- wobbly
- deceitful
- dishonest
- disloyal
- false
- irresponsible
- treacherous
- unreliable
- unsafe
- untrusty
- capricious
- conniving
- crooked
- devious
- dubious
- fair-weather
- faithless
- fickle
- fink
- fly-by-night
- guileful
- questionable
- shady
- sharp
- shifty
- slippery
- sneaky
- tricky
- trustless
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unassured
- undependable
- unsure
- untrue
- down-and-out
- drifting
- fly-by-night
- idle
- itinerant
- itinerate
- journeying
- mendicant
- moving
- peripatetic
- prodigal
- rambling
- roaming
- rootless
- roving
- sauntering
- shifting
- straggling
- stray
- strolling
- transient
- travelling
- unsettled
- wandering
- wayfaring
- aimless
- destitute
- errant
- fancy-free
- footloose
- migratory
- nomadic
- perambulant
- perambulatory
- shiftless
- wayward
- ephemeral
- fleeting
- short-term
- transitory
- brief
- flash
- fly-by-night
- flying
- fugitive
- passing
- short
- temporal
- volatile
- changeable
- deciduous
- emigrating
- evanescent
- flitting
- fugacious
- going by
- impermanent
- insubstantial
- migrating
- momentary
- moving
- provisional
- short-lived
- transmigratory
- unstable
- vacating
- arguable
- debatable
- equivocal
- fishy
- hesitant
- improbable
- problematic
- questionable
- reluctant
- shady
- skeptical
- suspicious
- uncertain
- unclear
- unconvinced
- unreliable
- unsure
- chancy
- diffident
- disputable
- dubitable
- far-fetched
- fly-by-night
- iffy
- indecisive
- moot
- mootable
- open
- perplexed
- suspect
- touch and go
- trustless
- unassured
- undecided
- undependable
- unlikely
- untrustworthy
- untrusty
- wavering
- brief
- cowboy
- ephemeral
- passing
- temporary
- disreputable
- dubious
- evanescent
- fleeting
- here-today-gone-tomorrow
- impermanent
- irresponsible
- momentary
- not to be relied upon
- not to be trusted
- questionable
- shady
- shifty
- short-lived
- slimy
- slippery
- treacherous
- trustless
- undependable
- unprofessional
- unreliable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- deserter
- escapee
- exile
- outcast
- outlaw
- recluse
- refugee
- derelict
- dodger
- evacuee
- fly-by-night
- hermit
- runaway
- stray
- transient
- truant
- vagabond
- waif
- walkout
- bolter
- displaced person
- émigré
- escaper
- hunted person
- runagate
- accurate
- certain
- clear
- constant
- correct
- definite
- dependable
- faithful
- forthright
- frank
- honest
- reliable
- right
- stable
- steady
- strong
- sure
- true
- trustworthy
- truthful
- responsible
- aboveboard
- believable
- certain
- clear
- definite
- determined
- honest
- likely
- probable
- secure
- sure
- trustworthy
- undoubted
- unquestionable
- doubtless
- positive
- reliable
- trusty
- unambiguous
- undoubtful
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How to use fly by night in a sentence
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXWithout preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERNevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSAll along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSLast night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXVenice is a City of the Past, and wears her faded yet queenly robes more gracefully by night than by day.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYIt was Wednesday night; over forty men sat down to the house-dinner at the Pandemonium Club.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThus he continued to rush over the frozen sea during a considerable part of that night.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEThe clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO FLY BY NIGHT
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