Sentence examples for a shady man from inspiring English sources

A collector negotiates with a shady man to acquire a stolen Degas painting.

The building belonged to a shady man who had several such properties.

"I think he is a shady man, and he does business in a shady way," said Francisco Cárdenas, the former president of Chivas, the Guadalajara soccer team that Mr. Vergara bought.

He traces her to a Chinese restaurant where she worked as a waitress and learns that she had been dating a shady Chinese man called Black Fort.

All due credit to Nick Hornby for fleshing out Lynn Barber's short, offhand memoir into a feature-length film, but this piquant 1960s comedy drama about a sixth former's affair with a shady older man isn't quite as earth-shattering as its award-laden international success might lead you to believe.

And can I just say, Sam is a shady, slimy man.

44 Inch Chest, which they initially wrote as a play, is one of the oddest films about love you'll see, as a bunch of shady men get together in a horrid East London bolthole with the intention of doing nasty things to a guy who slept with the wrong woman.

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In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a "shady" City men's club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.

It revolved around the grisly murder of an academic by a shady-looking man in a mac (the sartorial marker of dodginess, whatever the period).

The Fox Lake police officer had just radioed in that he was hot on the trail of three shady men, and a sprawling manhunt ensued to find his killers.