Synonyms of shady

1 Syllable

dim, dark, queer, cool

2 Syllables

vague, queerer, queerest, corrupt, bosky, umbrous, twilit, adusk, devious, muddied, scummy, darkest, leafier, schlocky, dubious, darker, sylvan, risqué, dusky, lightless, rayless, unlit, cloudy, risque, shoddy, duskier, leafiest, umbral, leafy, shifty, somber, screened, shiftier, witted, shoddier, shaded, doubtful, fishy, shiftiest, scurvy

3 Syllables

sheltered, adumbral, shadowed, unproven, opaque, villainous, dishonest, ill-famed, blackguardly, opprobious, shadowy, ill-lighted, outlawed, unlighted, underhand, criminal, infamous, tenebrous, indistinct, umbrageous, aphotic, notorious, lubricious, off-color, untruthful, pirated, fly-by-night, illegal

4 Syllables

disgraceful, untrustworthy, questionable, chiaroscuro, dubitable, unconfirmed, nontranslucent, nontransparent, fuliginous, unethical, misbegotten, despisable, unscrupulous, unapproved, prohibited, dirty-dealing, crepuscular, unprincipled, indictable, forestlike, duplicitous, unsavory, extralegal, unconscientious, profiteering

5 Syllables

disreputable, controvertible, dishonorable, unauthorized, exploitative

6 Syllables

unilluminated, prevaricatory