Shifty
['ʃɪftɪ] or ['ʃɪfti]
Definition
(a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
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Examples
- I scorn your shifty evasions, and I scorn you,' said the schoolmaster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was an odious face--crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-gray eyes and white lashes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Why, does anybody know anything about you, you shifty bitch! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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