From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shady \Shad"y\, adjective [Compar. {Shadier}; superl. {Shadiest}.]
1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
The shady trees cover him with their shadow. --Job. xl. 22.
And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. --Dryden.
2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter. --Bacon.
3. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; of questionable character; unsavory; equivocal; dubious, corrupt, or criminal; as, a shady character; -- of people or activities. [Colloq.] ''A shady business.'' --London Sat. Rev.
Shady characters, disreputable, criminal. --London Spectator.
{On the shady side of}, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. [Colloq.]
{To keep shady}, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: of businesses and businessmen; "a fly-by-night operation" [syn: {fly-by-night}]
2: of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting" [syn: {louche}]
3: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: {fishy}, {funny}, {queer}, {suspect}, {suspicious}]
4: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands" [syn: {shadowed}, {shadowy}, {umbrageous}] [also: {shadiest}, {shadier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "shady": amoral, bent, blue, bosky, broad, clouded, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, curtained, dark, darkling, derogatory, devious, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, doubtful, dubious, dusky, equivocal, evasive, felonious, fishy, fraudulent, ignoble, ignominious, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indecisive, indefinite, indirect, indistinct, infamous, inglorious, insidious, not kosher, notorious, obumbrate, obumbrated, off-color, overshaded, overshadowed, penumbral, purple, questionable, racy, rotten, salty, screened, seamy, shabby, shaded, shadow, shadowy, shameful, shameless, sheltered, shifty, shoddy, sinister, slippery, sordid, spicy, suggestive, suspect, suspicious, tricky, umbral, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, undecided, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unpraiseworthy, unprincipled, unreliable, unrespectable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, veiled, wicked, without remorse, without shame
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Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
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