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  • adjective superlative form of shifty: most shifty.

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Examples

  • The audience seemed to be having a hard time taking his wickedness seriously; his shiftiest moments elicited laughs.

    Dial R For Remake 2008

  • During the 14 years that compounds like AIDSVax have been knocking around in labs, researchers have learned that gp 120 is the shiftiest part of the virus.

    Is Aids Forever? 2008

  • A gigantic necklace of glowing jewels, the Pr/de was the biggest, fastest, shiftiest, most deadly ship ever to carry the colors of the Alban hopes of the Alban Empire.

    In Alien Hands Shatner, William 1997

  • He was the shiftiest and in a defense game the cleverest, most cunning fighter I have ever seen.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • He was the shiftiest and in a defense game the cleverest, most cunning fighter I have ever seen.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • He was the shiftiest and in a defense game the cleverest, most cunning fighter I have ever seen.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • He was known throughout the football world as one of the shiftiest runners of his day.

    Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards

  • As early as July, Maximilian, shiftiest and most impecunious of princes, concluded at Frankfort an independent treaty with France; who agreed to give up the places she occupied in Brittany if Henry were compelled to withdraw his garrisons; while there were signs that she might cede Roussillon and thus deprive

    England under the Tudors

  • At that he was an adept, and not the shiftiest, craftiest schemes he had ever devised had given him a moment's uneasiness.

    Grain of Dust. 1911

  • You're the shiftiest chef that ever juggled a fryin 'pan.

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

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