Go back to your shadowy past and don't come again--mocking me.

The shadowy past had little influence on the respect he presently commanded.

Another may have a shadowy past that makes it dangerous to collect under his own name.

Buzhazi knew a lot more about Khamenei's shadowy past.

He describes a crime committed in their shadowy past.

He had reintroduced her to the world, helped her move out of a shadowy past into a brighter present.

Up to that point it was Sydney's father and fellow double agent, Jack, whom she had suspected of hiding a shadowy past.

He is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking executive with a shadowy past who has achieved success in advertising.

He acknowledged his "shadowy past", and said that he went into business in an effort to help people rather than to take their money.

"I've given up my radio now that my shadowy past has returned."