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shifty
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Word definitions for shifty in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a shifty , fast-talking lawyer ▪ There's something shifty about that guy. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A thin, elegant man with shifty eyes and a high, unpleasant voice, Wood exuded a restless, hurried air. ▪ But a shifty ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shifty \Shift"y\, a. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance. --Wright. Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure. --C. Kingsley.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with ''shifty eyes''. 2 Subject to frequent changes in direction. 3 Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
Usage examples of shifty.
Though Jarrock himself was a man of shifty manner with an unconvincing smile that rendered his sallow face more ugly, there were persons present whose reliability stood unquestioned along with their reputation for judging art treasures.
Outside the quaternion were the dancing Pauppukkeewis, the Whirlwind, and the fierce and shifty hero, Monobozho, the North-West Wind.
Senior Trader Shifty Stuart occasionally spat from the cud of tobacco in his cheek into the river, but be did not bother to look at the water, nor did he look back to the west, at Traderstown, which the vessel had just left His eyes were for the east, for Tworivertown, where he would shortly make landfall with his cargo of furs, hides, fine horn-bows, matchless felts and blankets of nomad weave, beautifully worked leather items and a vast assortment of oddments obtained by the far-ranging horse-nomads of the transriverine plains by trade or warfare from other folk farther west, south or north.
An underpaid sleuth with a cubby-hole and a nightstick and a remit to keep one eye on the shifty characters who walked in off the street and an even beadier eye on the dodgy ones who worked there.
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.
Earnon was tall and good looking but he had the shiftiest eyes Herzer had ever seen.
In my last wardroom we decided Baltimore was the shiftiest place any of us ever saw, and we decided anyone who went through four years of that shit you did must have thought they were in Baltimore.
Next to Brer Rabbit, old Brer Fox was most the shiftiest creature going.
On foot, The Shadow took up their trail, to find it one of the shiftiest that he had ever attempted to follow.
He was tall for a local, with a mane of blazing red hair and the shiftiest eyes Rice had ever seen.