Shadowy in a sentence as an adjective

"This industry is a shadowy underworld," he said.

> "HN is pretty transparent, I think, but Facebook is more shadowy in this regard.

Also, it's common to refer to things as shadowy in financial markets.

With that in mind, I would call it "shadowy".Also, I think making money on timing the market is not a bad thing.

" There followed further meetings with shadowy Whitehall figures.

"Updating" Neuromancer would bring its entire shadowy world out into the unthreatening, mid-day sun.

He's involved in "a long list of other shadowy [investment] businesses, all incorporated in Delaware for its lax tax and regulatory policies"!

Running around outside, hunting locations, competing against a shadowy opposition?

Instead, we have the equivalent of shadowy trafficking in intangibles that are now being used, not to encourage innovation, but to attack the very developers who are trying to innovate.

Wait, it was just a single smart dude whose actual real name is Satoshi Nakamoto, and here we've been theorizing shadowy pseudonymous cabals of libertarian cryptographers?I feel very silly.

Although a nurturing environment for human freedom, it's also a fragile ecosystem, and giving up on a couple key nodes, in its current form, is enough to destroy it, shadowy dreams of darknets notwithstanding.

But it is very important that, as US citizens, we have an understanding and a grasp of what is done and what could be done in our name, and that we regulate its activities based upon our choices, not that of shadowy figures telling us we don't have the capacity to understand.

But the patents are "monetized" again to lesser players with shadowy relations to the original IV group, who in their turn try to "monetize" them further by attempting to double-dip with the original licensees based on limitations in the original licensing language.

I don't if its borne more out of cynicism or laziness, but I feel as though if a shadowy government organization has the ability to peer into every major facet of the Internet, me encrypting my email isn't going to do much to stop them from getting whatever they want to know about me.

Do you honestly expect them to fall on their sword for the good of the nation?Giving a shadowy group with essentially no oversight access to damn near every skeleton in the closet society has under the guise of "security" is analogous stuffing your house with munitions and trusting your kids not to play with matches.

Shadowy definitions

adjective

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"

See also: shady shadowed umbrageous

adjective

lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"

See also: faint vague wispy

adjective

lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"

See also: wraithlike