What is "shiftily"

Usage examples of "shiftily".

He brightened shiftily, and tried to pull me back to the piece on the truck.

He ate shiftily, then took a goblet from the hamper and a bottle, uncorking and pouring the red wine.

He was shiny with nervous sweat, his eyes moved shiftily behind the glittering spectacles and his hands scampered about like frightened mice - running over his blotter or leaping up to adjust the knot of his necktie or smooth down the thin strands of hair on his polished cranium.

Bradbury or Heinlein or Le Guin, mostly because I tend to move too fast and too shiftily for any publish-or-perish professor to get a handle on me.

After glancing at it, he jumped to his feet, shiftily looking for the nearest exit.

He stood in the doorway for several minutes, gazing at us shiftily, his long spatulate fingers moving nervously at his sides.

Sengka and his men began to look up shiftily, as if trying to avoid being seen.

Giordino entered the shantyboat, took Pitt's Colt automatic and shiftily lowered it on a string through a window until it hung just above the water surface opposite the wharf.