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adj. (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady operation"

adj. of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"

adj. 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"

fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious

adj. 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"

dishonest, dishonorable

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

grey, gray

adj. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

disreputable

adj. lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance

untrustworthy, untrusty

adj. not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"

furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious

adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

improbable, unlikely

adj. not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"

dishonest, dishonorable

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

false, faithless

adj. (untrustworthy)

devious, shifty

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

slippery, tricky

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

unreliable, undependable

adj. not to be trusted

discredited, damaged

adj. being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"

ill-famed, infamous, notorious

adj. known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid

adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"

unrespectable

adj. unworthy of respect

unrespected

adj. accorded no respect

Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian

adj. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth

aphotic

adj. lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight; "the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs"

black, pitch-black, pitch-dark

adj. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"

darkling

adj. (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"

Cimmerian

adj. intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas

dusky, twilight(a), twilit

adj. lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

dark as the inside of a black cat

adj. (dark)

dimmed, dim

adj. made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky

adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit

adj. without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"

tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious

adj. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"

darkened

adj. become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater"

subfusc

adj. devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing"

alleged(a), so-called, supposed

adj. doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"

Apocryphal

adj. of or belonging to the Apocrypha

disputed, challenged, questioned

adj. subject to disagreement and debate

debatable, problematic, problematical

adj. open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic"

doubtful, dubious, dubitable, in question(p)

adj. open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought"- Karen Horney

impugnable

adj. subject to being discredited

self-styled, soi-disant

adj. as claimed by and for yourself often without justification; "the self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"

reputable

adj. having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"

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