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shifty
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "able to manage for oneself, fertile in expedients," from shift (n.1) in secondary sense of "dodge, trick, artifice" + -y (2). Meaning "habitually using dishonest methods, characterized by trickery" first recorded 1837. In a sense "prone to shifting," of the wind, used from 1884. Related: Shiftily; shiftiness.
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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Shifty may refer to:
- Shifty (film), a 2008 British urban thriller, from writer/director Eran Creevy
- Shifty Henry (1921–1958), American musician
- Shifty Records, a South African record label
- Shifty Records (United States), an American record label specializing in metal
- Darrell Powers (1923–2009), American soldier also known as Darrell "Shifty" Powers
- Seth "Shifty Shellshock" Binzer (born 1974), American nu metal/hip hop singer and co-founder and co-leader of the band Crazy Town
- Shifty, a fictional character in the series Happy Tree Friends
- Shifty Dingo, a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Blinky Bill
Shifty is a British urban thriller, written and directed by Eran Creevy. Set on the outskirts of London, it follows themes of friendship and loyalty over the course of twenty-four hours in the life of a young drug dealer, the charismatic Shifty. Shifty was filmed predominantly in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, the home of Elstree Studios. Based on Eran Creevy's teenage experiences, and boasting convincing performances from a cast of rising stars, as well as veteran actors Jason Flemyng and Francesca Annis, the film was funded by Film London's Microwave scheme and delivered after a shooting schedule of just eighteen days.
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.