Adjective

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Abounding in shades.

Causing shade.

* Bible, Job xl. 22

The shady trees cover him with their shadow.

Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.

* Francis Bacon

Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.

(informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.

He is a shady character.

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(UK, slang) Mean, cruel.

''Don't be shady , give us a go.

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Adjective

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Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

I like it when it is dusky , just before the street lights come on.

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A shade of color that is rather dark.

The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.

(dated) dark-skinned

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:* In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.

ashen, greyish skin coloration

This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.