What is "shiftier"

Usage examples of "shiftier".

They made him say yes and no alternately so many times that he had to admit in men a shiftier yieldingness than women were charged with.

Most mature men have learned that women are smarter, shiftier, and faster on their feet than they are.

Gods knows the Arab merchants are tricksters and swindlers, but the Armeniyans are so much shiftier that only a fellow Armeniyan dares deal with them.

Sigby, a bit shiftier, took a bullet in the opposite shoulder, but the pain made him clap his gun hand across to it.

His eyes were perhaps shiftier than most, his nose larger, his mouth unpleasantly sensual.

The other two, shiftier than the first pair, told me they were still looking.