Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being shifty, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being shifty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The property of being
shifty . - noun countable, rare The result or product of being
shifty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being a slippery rascal
- noun the quality of being changeable in direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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An Edmonton, Alberta native, Comrie's scoring ability and just plain shiftiness has been well documented.
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If I had to put it into a word, IĀd go with "shiftiness".
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The want of "shiftiness" is a national characteristic.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871
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It is true that he has a certain rapidity, which somebody calls "shiftiness," of resolution and of performance, which gets him out of his scrapes as rapidly as he gets in.
How to Do It Edward Everett Hale 1865
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"shiftiness" of the eye which was far from inspiring confidence, and with a trick of the tongue which suggested that his baptismal certificate probably bore the name of Anthony Martin.
Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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"shiftiness" of the eye which was far from inspiring confidence, and with a trick of the tongue which suggested that his baptismal certificate probably bore the name of Anthony Martin.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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The present shiftiness, circumlocution and evasion is doing the party nothing but harm.
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The present shiftiness, circumlocution and evasion is doing the party nothing but harm.
Archive 2009-09-06 2009
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But he also displayed the shiftiness that had USC people comparing him to Reggie Bush, his immediate predecessor at that program.
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Then there was some more shiftiness over whether he'll release his tax returns ā and Romney got away with a non-answer that basically said he'd think about doing it if he was the nominee.
South Carolina Republican debate: Stopping Mitt Romney - as it happened 2012
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