Crossword-Solution: SHADY 5 letters, 125 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Shady	superl.	Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
Shady	superl.	Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
Shady	superl.	Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHADY	anagram	DASHY, HYADS

We have 125 clues for the answer “SHADY”

Clue	Answers
"Strolling down a ___ lane . . . "	1 answer
A bit fishy	1 answer
Billy Joel's former brother-in-law	1 answer
Blocked from sunlight	1 answer
Dishonest: Colloq.	1 answer
Disreputable: Colloq.	1 answer
Dubious: Colloq.	1 answer
Legally questionable	1 answer
Less than legit	1 answer
Like a con artist's business	1 answer
Like a creepazoid	1 answer
Like a garden spot	1 answer
Like a sleazebag	1 answer
Like a sleazy promoter	1 answer
Like a spot under a tree	1 answer
Like a tree-lined lane	1 answer
Like a tree-lined path	1 answer
Like a tree-lined trail	1 answer
Like an elm-lined street	1 answer
Like arboreal areas	1 answer
Like groves	1 answer
Like some dealings	1 answer
Like some questionable characters	1 answer
Morally suspect, or pleasantly cool	1 answer
Not at all reputable	1 answer
Not exactly legit	1 answer
Not quite legit	1 answer
Not quite on the up-and-up	1 answer
Of doubtful legality	1 answer
Of dubious character	1 answer
Of questionable character	1 answer
Of questionable honesty	1 answer
Of questionable honesty: Colloq.	1 answer
On the ___ side of (older than).	1 answer
Screened from the sun.	1 answer
Shielded from sunlight	1 answer
Shielded from the sun	1 answer
Somewhat illicit.	1 answer
Suitable for hosta	1 answer
Sun-shielded	1 answer
Sun-shielded, as by trees	1 answer
Suspicious-seeming	1 answer
Tree-lined Like a area	1 answer
Underhand: Colloq.	1 answer
filled with shade	1 answer
situated in or giving shade	1 answer
the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed	1 answer
Like an arbor	2 answers
Less than reputable	2 answers
Not reputable	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EEATR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SHADY (5)

Nothing was said until, against a shady background of foliage, five white bars were visible, crossing their route a little way ahead.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

When I had last seen this part of Sheen in the daylight it had been a straggling street of comfortable white and red houses, interspersed with abundant shady trees.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Thea liked to take Thor and her express wagon and explore these quiet, shady streets, where the people never tried to have lawns or to grow elms and pine trees, but let the native timber have its way and spread in luxuriance.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Full forty days he passed—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days ended; hungered then at last Among wild beasts.

Paradise Regained John Milton 1993

When I think of the Commonwealth I see a shady little group of these small saplings which we called the oak parlor; when I think of George III.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with SHADY (3)

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

Elizabeth Gilbert Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. Till your spirit filleth the whole world, and the stars are your je…

Thomas Traherne Centuries Of Meditations

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 137 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).