What's the difference between shadowy and umbrageous?
Shadowy
Definition:
(a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
(a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
(a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
(a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical.
(a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(2) A "light installation" is projecting a shadowy grim reaper.
(3) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
(4) This was not an anonymous Jordanian or an Iraqi with a shadowy Baathist past, but someone educated in St John’s Wood, Queen’s Park and Westminster.
(5) Beyond this group of wealthy brokers, there are more shadowy figures: boat operators and smugglers who make the Mediterranean crossing, in this case a ruthless figure known as “the Doctor”.
(6) It has blended with another meaning, used as a codeword that bridges from Israel to the wider Jewish world, hinting at the age-old, antisemitic notion of a shadowy, global power, operating behind the scenes.
(7) Her 2012 presidential campaign was handled by a little-known agency, Riwal, run by long-time friend Frédéric Chatillon, a former member of the shadowy far-right student organisation Group Union Défense (GUD).
(8) Henrietta, a 62-year-old former addict and convicted drug smuggler who declined to have her surname published, painted a shadowy world of crack houses, prostitution and gang warfare as frightening as anything in Breaking Bad .
(9) There’s a magnificent melancholy about him, this shadowy figure performing an act of unrequited love.
(10) For a decade this, not the governor's palace, was arguably the real centre of power in the shadowy world of politics in Kandahar.
(11) I could be part of the shadowy media cover-up squad.
(12) This is one of the things that I hate about politics, and the vast majority of people out there hate as well: all of these shadowy goings-on, where people are not held to account for what they say or do, because they’re doing things off the record.
(13) Although of course the awards are actually decided by shadowy illuminati lizard people so this all means nothing.
(14) "We now know that other shadowy forces were also trying to undermine our efforts in the most disgusting, but ultimately futile ways.
(15) The second part of the argument for disqualification is that Blair is not a convinced democrat, which is important when you realise that Europe is changing with the Lisbon Treaty and acquiring foreign policy institutions and all sorts of shadowy committees to preside over internal security.
(16) Why were midwives portrayed as "shadowy figures", when in fact they see it all?
(17) Directed by Bigelow and scripted by Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty focuses on the behind-the-scenes operation to track Bin Laden via a shadowy network of al-Qaida couriers.
(18) As the crowd chanted “CNN sucks,” Trump answered: “They really do.” He continued to conjure imagery of shadowy backers behind Hillary Clinton: “Her international donors control every move she made … history will record that 2017 is the year America lost its independence.” In one display of policy substance, Trump proposed ethics reforms including a five-year ban on executive branch officials lobbying the government after leaving public service, and a similar ban for staffers on Capitol Hill.
(19) Many of the Chechens killed in the Turkey hits over recent years were linked to fundraising for the insurgency, and the chain of shadowy assassinations suggests Moscow has preferred the clinical removal of key figures rather than angry public rhetoric, while Ankara has not seemed to put much effort into hunting the killers.
(20) Revelations that Tory donors and shadowy figures were supporting a company set up specifically to support Werritty appears to have been the final straw in the pair's long relationship.
Umbrageous
Definition:
(a.) Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.
(a.) Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or shaded; obscure.
(a.) Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday he also took umbrage at Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed criticising US militarism.
(2) The Tory minister took umbrage and in an open letter published on the PoliticsHome website , accused her of "backing the destruction of one of the most effective schemes we have for helping young people get into work".
(3) The senior Democrat on the intelligence committee, Adam Schiff of California, took umbrage at Trump’s implication that “the intelligence community is lying” and said Trump was not acting presidentially.
(4) Indeed, the outrage and umbrage – most of all, it seems, about Obama "cadence" – deflates as it is uttered.
(5) It is not clear if Morsi himself took umbrage or whether his entourage has given instructions to silence the satirist – or at least remind him of the line not to cross.
(6) WPP has also taken umbrage at the methodology which ISS has used, which benchmarks the company against FTSE 100 companies in the UK.
(7) Chris Evans does not take umbrage when I tell him he has movie-star anonymity.
(8) MSNBC's resident ranter and news commentator Keith Olbermann – who once described a Republican senator as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model" – tweeted his umbrage at Stewart's intimation that he is unhelpfully hyperbolic, possibly before smashing his Blackberry underfoot.
(9) He takes umbrage, at this more than anything else I’ve asked.
(10) Well, celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with.
(11) On the basis of the present study and related previous ones, tumor inhibition appears to be due not to an umbrageous effect but rather to the induction of systemic physiological responses.
(12) Although the Obama administration defiantly vowed to continue its own bombing operations in Syria - and took umbrage at Russia’s insistence on Wednesday that the US ground its aircraft – the US military revealed on Thursday that it launched only a single airstrike in the wake of the Russian campaign.
(13) 12.44pm BST An email, from Claire McConnell: "I know you didn’t write that phrase, and that the MLS is no example of quality football, but as a resident of Toronto, a great city, I have to take umbrage at the “boondocks” word."
(14) Intelligence professionals take great pride in their work … But when there is baseless criticism and impugning the integrity and the mission of intelligence officers, yeah – they take umbrage at that and will continue to do so and I will certainly do,” Brennan said.
(15) But after 40 years, staff and freelance, memories crowd in and old umbrages flower lie mutant cacti.
(16) Wawrinka took umbrage with Lopez's chuntering during the third set and asked the umpire to tell him to stop, which led to much finger-pointing at the net after the match.
(17) It tweeted a picture of one effigy rolling past its offices: “A sneak preview of Alex Salmond and Nessie ahead of tonight’s bonfire in Lewes – it just rolled up at County Hall.” As Scottish independence campaigners took mild umbrage on Twitter, the council quickly deleted the tweet and denied responsibility .
(18) One strain of reaction to Feinstein’s sudden umbrage at what she characterized as the invasiveness and unruliness of CIA practices is, Why is it OK when it’s done to the public, but not OK when it’s done to Senate staffers?
(19) The leader of the Green party, Cem Özdemir, who took part in the counter-protest, told the Guardian: “Being in a party whose members took part in the 1989 Monday demos, I take great umbrage at the abuse of the slogan used back then, ‘Wir sind das Volk’.
(20) The UK’s largest mobile phone company has taken umbrage at 3’s latest adverts, in particular one strapline where it claims it is the “undisputed” leader.