fly-by-night

2 definitions found

fly-by-night - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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

fly-by-night - 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