Shady vs Dicey - What's the difference?
shady | dicey |
Abounding in shades.
Causing shade.
* Bible, Job xl. 22
Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
* Francis Bacon
(informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
* 2009 :
(UK, slang) Mean, cruel.
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Fraught with danger.
Of uncertain, risky outcome.
* 2012 , Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver (editors), They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World ,
Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
* 1992 , Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man'', in ''Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories ,
* 2011 , Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social ,
(slang) Nauseating, rank.
* 2011 , Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers ,
As adjectives the difference between shady and dicey
is that shady is abounding in shades while dicey is fraught with danger.shady
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Adjective
(er)- The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
- Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.
- He is a shady character.
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- Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a ' shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
- ''Don't be shady , give us a go.
Synonyms
* (not trustworthy) corrupt, dodgy, dubious, equivocal, seedy, sketchy, suspiciousdicey
English
Adjective
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- Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey .
page 95,
- As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn?t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
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- If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
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- Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.