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fly-by-night
adjective as in unreliable and shady
adjective as in improvised
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adjective as in insubstantial
adjective as in irresponsible
adjective as in shifty
adjective as in short-lived
adjective as in slippery
adjective as in slipshod
adjective as in transient/transitory
adjective as in treacherous
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adjective as in undependable
adjective as in unethical
adjective as in unreliable
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adjective as in unsure
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adjective as in untrustworthy
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adjective as in vagabond
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adjective as in transient
adjective as in transitory
adjective as in dubious
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adjective as in fly-by-night
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Example Sentences
Some of the groups have been around for decades, others are fly-by-night.
And not fly-by-night issues either, but stalwarts such as G.E., Citi, Google.
What gets me is, when you boil our two fly-by-night stories down, I've come here to be alone.
She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions.
Throughout the country local managers began to steal the Madison Square plays and put them on with "fly-by-night" companies.
Theres hundreds of these little fly-by-night mining camps in this here Western country.
Shown up in our newspapers as a ditch-digger—a fly-by-night—a nobody!
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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fly-by-night, such as: brief, cowboy, ephemeral, passing, temporary, and disreputable.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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