fly-by-night
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
fly-by-night
adj 1: (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady
operation" [syn: {fly-by-night}, {shady}]
2: ephemeral; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"
n 1: a debtor who flees to avoid paying
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "fly-by-night":
brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying,
ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, flying,
fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous,
impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, irresponsible, momentary,
mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable,
short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
transitory, trustless, undependable, undurable, unenduring,
unfaithworthy, unreliable, unstable, unsure, untrustworthy,
untrusty, volatile
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