Shadowy and Veiled

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Shadowy adjective - Not seen or understood clearly.

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Veiled and shadowy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Veiled" instead an adjective "Shadowy".

Nearby Words: shadow, shadowed, shadowing

Veiled adjective - Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover.

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Shadowy and veiled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Shadowy" instead an adjective "Veiled".

Nearby Words: veil, veiling

In The Tojo Virus, a hacker named David Kimura is the point man for a shadowy cabal of Japanese executives who intend to take out a thinly-veiled Expy of IBM and in doing so dominate the American economy and get revenge for the Japanese loss in World War II.

Source: Japan Takes Over the World

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