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  • adjective comparative form of shifty: more shifty

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Examples

  • It helps a lot, I'm a lot shiftier than guys, I can get away from guys and they can't get a direct hit on me.

    About Brandon Banks's size Dan Steinberg 2010

  • Their ideal nominee should evidently be a blowhard ignoramus with a moral compass that's shiftier than the San Andreas fault line, and at least as deeply cracked.

    Kerry Trueman: Does Capitalism Have to Promote Child Abuse? Kerry Trueman 2011

  • Their ideal nominee should evidently be a blowhard ignoramus with a moral compass that's shiftier than the San Andreas fault line, and at least as deeply cracked.

    Kerry Trueman: Does Capitalism Have to Promote Child Abuse? Kerry Trueman 2011

  • Their ideal nominee should evidently be a blowhard ignoramus with a moral compass that's shiftier than the San Andreas fault line, and at least as deeply cracked.

    Kerry Trueman: Does Capitalism Have to Promote Child Abuse? Kerry Trueman 2011

  • At 6-foot-4, 264 pounds, he ' s seven inches taller — and 66 pounds heavier — than the shiftier Mr. Bradshaw.

    Jacobs to Start Sunday for Giants Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010

  • Ahmad Bradshaw, the smaller shiftier back who ' d taken Mr. Jacobs ' starting job this preseason and then lost it because of fumble troubles, rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries.

    Winning the Ground War Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010

  • In the three games since that visit to the Eagles, the Giants have switched the order of their running backs, starting the bruiser Mr. Jacobs and bringing the shiftier Mr. Bradshaw off the bench.

    The Giants Get Back to Running People Over Aditi Kinkhabwala 2010

  • Brown sounds shifty, and the more he blasts this message the shiftier he will sound.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Brown sounds shifty, and the more he blasts this message the shiftier he will sound.

    Cameron tears into Brown's lies 2009

  • Apparently, novelists are regarded as shiftier sorts, because to this day, the only acceptable proof that they can write a book is to have already written one.

    Author! Author! » 2009 » March 2009

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