Shady vs Sunless - What's the difference?
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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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Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
* 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
* 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
Shady is a related term of sunless.
As adjectives the difference between shady and sunless
is that shady is abounding in shades while sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.shady
English
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, suspicioussunless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
- A stately pleasure dome decree:
- Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
- Through caverns measureless to man
- Down to a sunless sea.
- When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless , her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.