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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a debtor who flees to avoid paying;


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous;
- Example: "a shady operation"
[syn: fly-by-night, shady]

2. ephemeral;
- Example: "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"



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


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