Sentence examples for shady man from inspiring English sources

Exact(3)

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.

Similar(57)

"Poverty eventually made criminals of everyone," she writes of the women and the shady men in their milieu.

We were being manipulated, it seemed, by nefarious executives like Dannen's hit men, who conspired with shady men in shiny cars to manipulate radio playlists.

Safa Al-Ahmad, the journalist responsible, interviews shady men in shady corners and takes her camera to places where such things are not usually allowed, occasionally turning it off for her own safety.

As the Portuguese settlers piled their lives into boxes at the port, soldiers from apartheid South Africa, Zaire and Cuba moved towards the capital in front of or behind the competing Angolan armies, while shady men from the CIA and the Portuguese PIDE fed rumours of imminent triumph for one side or the other.

There is a special place on the Australian TV landscape for Jack Irish (somewhere in a dark corner, near a liquor cabinet) – the down-in-the-mouth private investigator and debt collector whose whiskey-infused existence is spent unravelling criminal schemes and listening to shady men deliver warnings such as "tread carefully".

Badu mixed squishy cosmic musings with blunt takedowns of shady men in songs that layered dreamy psychedelic textures and creeping funk grooves.

Why are we expected to support the works of shady men and pretend their misogyny, their abuse, and their disregard isn't problematic?

Sign up for Theybest of VICE, delivered to your inbox daily.

Show more...

Ludwig, your English writing platform

Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.

Student

Used by millions of students, scientific researchers, professional translators and editors from all over the world!

MitStanfordHarvardAustralian Nationa UniversityNanyangOxford

Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak quote

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak

CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com

Get started for free

Unlock your writing potential with Ludwig

Letters

Most frequent sentences: