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Nouns (1)

fly-by-night

n. a debtor who flees to avoid paying

Verbs (0)

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (2)

fly-by-night

adj. ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"

shady

adj. of businesses and businessmen of questionable honesty; "a fly-by-night operation"

Fuzzynyms (3)

dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable

adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

Synonyms (22)

acting, interim

adj. performing services temporarily

passing, transient, ephemeral, short-lived, transitory

adj. lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

episodic

adj. limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"

makeshift, improvised, jury-rigged

adj. done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

temporal

adj. not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt

terminable

adj. capable of being terminated after a designated time; "terminable employees"; "a terminable annuity"

visiting, guest

adj. staying temporarily: "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor"

false, faithless

adj. (untrustworthy)

shifty

adj. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

tricky, slippery

adj. not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

unreliable, undependable

adj. not to be trusted

Antonyms (0)

fly-by-night

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