shadiness

Example Sentences

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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

And Mozgala portrays John as someone who is slippery, coy and clever, with a shadiness beneath.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Haugen suddenly seems to carry all the authority of her erstwhile employer without any of the shadiness the down-and-out juggernaut just can’t shake.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2019

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 Hardy, Thomas