shadowy

Cognitive symptoms could include illusions or hallucinations — some patients report sensing a shadowy figure nearby — and difficulties with problem solving and navigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Her bravery contrasts sharply with the behavior of Irène, who passed the war hiding in her Paris apartment under shadowy circumstances, apparently protected by a collaborationist friend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He features in a BBC World Service documentary about the shadowy world of Russian saboteurs.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Depicting the 1066 Battle of Hastings and the invasion by William the Conqueror's Norman army, the tapestry has shadowy origins.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The shadowy palace halls brightened as torches flickered to life along all the walls.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Shadowy organizations lurk in the shadows of other shadowier organizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

If that weren’t enough, I was just introduced to an even shadowier cabal of villains who are controlling the people who control the colonies.

From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022

Angleton had, in effect, weaponized this strategy of interpretation—convinced that any apparently straightforward reference in the world in fact meant something shadowier than it seemed to.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

Toward the end of the book, we find out where the narrator has been imprisoned, who the shadowy Commandant is, and why everyone is afraid of an even shadowier character known as the Commissar.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015

But the shadowiest of the show's shadowy secrets is its music.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The anarchist and critic Félix Fénéon, one of the shadowiest mavericks of turn-of-the-century France, was sometimes described by his artist friends as a Yankee—a term intended to give him a dangerous gloss of American exoticism.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2014

The higher objects of Government were, if at all, outlined in the shadowiest form in his imagination.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Edward Jenkins

Lennox remains for us the shadowiest of personalities, but his disappearance, implying abandonment of the woman he had compromised, tells against him.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne

I trust I do not seem even in the shadowiest way to comment unfavourably.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett