What's the difference between shady and vivid?

Shady


Definition:

  • (superl.) Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.
  • (superl.) Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It does seem a little shady to do this kind of field study - the very studies the companies say are the most important ones - and then not tell people what they find.” Prof Christian Krupke, at Purdue University in Indiana, said: “Bayer and Syngenta’s commitment to pollinator health should include publishing these data.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Where would I get 15 grand for a watch?” As for the “shady” club, Umunna says he did attend a business function at its restaurant, but is not a member.
  • (4) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
  • (5) The permanent collection of period paintings and furniture is small, but afterwards, most visitors can't resist afternoon tea in the cafe housed in a greenhouse amid its shady garden.
  • (6) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
  • (7) Hopefully Tunisia’s coastline will be developed prudently in coming years, avoiding the speculation and shady deals of Spain’s Costa del Sol.
  • (8) How much Cristina knew of her husband's allegedly shady activities is hotly contested.
  • (9) As an added bonus there is a shady courtyard area – which is just as well because people who get a table inside don’t move.
  • (10) The lower level rooms each have shady balconies and white-cushioned loungers on which to doze before a dip in the attractive pool.
  • (11) Kanoniuk said an audience member successfully answered: “One is a Goodyear and another is a great year.” Shady Music Facts (@musicnews_shade) "I'd rather die than work in Vegas."
  • (12) With evasive answers, shady characters and FBI investigations, there must be something going on.
  • (13) The election of Shady Alsuleiman, our first Australian-born imam, as ANIC’s president is an important resetting point.” Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more Fierravanti-Wells had herself called for a stronger statement from the grand mufti.
  • (14) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
  • (15) The Taxi & Limousine Commission has a duty to protect the public from unsavory businesses and their shady practices,” wrote Phillips.
  • (16) Celia Stubbs , Peach's partner, the dogged campaigners of Inquest , which was set up partly in response to the shady way in which Peach's death was investigated, and Jenny Jones of the Metropolitan Police Authority , who have all fought so hard for this, are to be congratulated.
  • (17) It is repeatedly claimed that dangerous criminals and shady public figures are using European law to request that Google removes information about them, abusing rights designed to allow individuals some say over personal information that is inaccurate, irrelevant or outdated, and holds no public interest .
  • (18) But he gets a little shady when he's taking shots at his colleagues without looking at the work.
  • (19) And I’m saying that with the utmost respect, because there are people who will think of all this as shady.
  • (20) What’s in David Cameron’s tax returns: a few strokes of luck but no shady shenanigans Read more Raab told Sky News’s Murnaghan show: “Amid all the froth and frenzy of the media debate, it seems crystal clear not only that he has not done anything illegal, but that he has not behaved improperly in any way.

Vivid


Definition:

  • (a.) True to the life; exhibiting the appearance of life or freshness; animated; spirited; bright; strong; intense; as, vivid colors.
  • (a.) Forming brilliant images, or painting in lively colors; lively; sprightly; as, a vivid imagination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 156 subjects (students and working adults) completed Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire in one of two formats reflecting item order (blocked, random) under one of three instructional conditions (easy, neutral, difficult) reflecting ease of image formation.
  • (2) In contrast to height, however, a short term formula for values from birth to near pubescence cannot be applied due to the vivid head growth in the postnatal phase.
  • (3) Spontaneously recovered alcoholics reported experiencing vivid sensations and images at the time they decided to quit drinking, and they reported subsequent transformations of their personal identities.
  • (4) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (5) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
  • (6) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
  • (7) Extremism outside Europe can also affect the continent, as the attacks in Paris so vividly illustrate.
  • (8) We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight.
  • (9) He gives vivid accounts of the utter chaos of Gallipoli where he shelters under flimsy awnings in shallow holes in the ground, exhausted and starving.
  • (10) There were moments when Joe was so hurt and which he remembers so vividly.
  • (11) At such a juncture a writer can inject their own imagination to isolate them from the real world or maybe they can exaggerate the situation – making sure it is bold, vivid and has the signature of our real world.
  • (12) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
  • (13) Individuals with frequent nightmares scored higher on hypnotizability, vividness of visual imagery, and absorption.
  • (14) Although it indicates that there is no disturbance in the vividness of volitional mental imagery in schizophrenia, the presence of abnormal spontaneous imagery cannot be commented upon.
  • (15) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
  • (16) It was an obvious inclusion, says Linehan, because it encapsulated the essence of Vivid Music.
  • (17) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
  • (18) In this report, a technique is described that evokes a vivid percept of motion of a textured pattern only at isoluminance.
  • (19) Congestion and vivid reddening of the caecum and marked serosal and submucosal oedema are present.
  • (20) A detailed conformation analysis vividly demonstrated that the difference in conformational possibilities is manly determined by different conditions of realization of residual interactions.