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The phrase "a shady character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is suspicious, untrustworthy, or involved in dishonest activities.
Example: "The detective was wary of the new informant, suspecting he might be a shady character with hidden motives."
Alternatives: "a dubious individual" or "a questionable person".
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swag for money and tattoos from a shady character in Columbus.
So sings Sportin' Life, a shady character in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
She describes her father as a bit of a shady character from Brooklyn.
We'd been invited by a shady character called Oleg we'd met in Doncaster at Ukip's conference.
He was a shady character who was employed by the Japs to buy hospital supplies, he also supplied the officers with white women, etc.
Undershaft, who has an almost jolly sense of being in the right, is in Warner's performance too obviously a shady character.
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Here, Houston, who lives in Scotland and also runs a Shady Characters blog, tells the origin stories of some of these marks.
They pay $20 to $50 (often for bikes worth hundreds) to any shady character bearing a bike.
"One of the tellers, who was a pre-law student, was dating a rather shady character," she writes.
Of course, whether we should take Yuri's words at face value is another matter, given that he's a pretty shady character himself.
Her widowed mother's friendship with an increasingly shady character becomes the stuff of "A Daughter's Nightmare" in this thriller.
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