shadowy

a shadowy path through the woods

the shadowy world of covert operations.

a long, shadowy, cobbled passage.

They crouched together on a shadowy hillside.

She saw a shadowy figure through the blind.

a shadowy figure appeared through the mist.

they were attacked by a swarm of shadowy, ethereal forms.

spirits are shadowy, human beings substantial.

a shadowy figure who lived on the borderland of the drug scene.

a shadowy figure in a black Homburg traversing the fogbound park.

he looked a little ragged, a little shadowy beneath the eyes.

a shadowy avenue through thick foliage) but may suggest shifting illumination and indistinctness:

As I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.

Since her illness, other people had become shadowy and had no real existence for her.

She saw a large, empty, shadowy play-house, still redolent of the perfumes and blazonry of the night, and notable for its rich, oriental appearance.

Close up, the workmanship that went into each ripple and shadowy layer of tulle was inimitably precious, yet somehow the designers successfully dodged the hazard of veering into overdone froufrou.

Dreaming of a shadowy man that winds a shadowy horn.

An immense chimney, relic of a disused mill, reared up, shadowy and ominous.

Even the bourgeois world of Paris at play had its shadowy side.

Thugs, pickpockets and prostitutes lurked in the unlit alleys and shadowy streets.

Harry stared at her shadowy face.

As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height.

Are they really a shadowy elite who control the world?

He looked up at the shadowy ceiling, the cobwebbed chandelier.

It's that shadowy feeling you get when a situation seems familiar.

Below, in a shadowy clearing, stood Snape, but he wasn't alone.