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fly-by-night
adjective as in unreliable and shady
Example Sentences
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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