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- Dictionaryshift·y/ˈSHiftē/
adjective
- 1. (of a person or their manner) appearing deceitful or evasive: informal "a shifty, fast-talking lawyer"
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The meaning of SHIFTY is full of or ready with expedients : resourceful. How to use shifty in a sentence.
looking or seeming dishonest: He has shifty eyes. There's a couple of shifty - looking people standing on the street corner. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Dishonest. artificiality. bad faith. be rotten to the core idiom. bent. cowboy. dubiously. false. finagle. fishy. fly-by-night. malfeasance. mendaciously. misleadingly.
given to or full of evasions; tricky. Synonyms: slippery, foxy, crafty. suggesting a deceptive or evasive character: a shifty look. shifty. / ˈʃɪftɪ / adjective. given to evasions; artful. furtive in character or appearance. full of expedients; resourceful.
Definition of 'shifty' shifty. (ʃɪfti ) Word forms: shiftier, shiftiest. adjective. Someone who looks shifty gives the impression of being dishonest. [informal, disapproval] He had a shifty face and previous convictions. Synonyms: untrustworthy, sly, devious, scheming More Synonyms of shifty. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
To be shifty is to be sneaky and devious. Shifty behavior is untrustworthy. Sometimes people shift around when they're nervous. That can help you remember the meaning of shifty, which describes someone who may not be literally shifting around, but they’re acting in a way that makes you think they're up to no good. Lying is shifty behavior.
1. Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy. 2. Distinguished by frequent changes in direction: shifty winds. 3. Able to accomplish what is needed; resourceful. shift′i·ly adv. shift′i·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Definition of shifty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Someone who looks shifty looks dishonest. (Definition of shifty from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of shifty
Shifty definition: Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
intelligent and skilled in deceiving others: His shifty eyes make him look like a used-car salesman. (Definition of shifty from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of shifty. shifty. He's starting to get a little shifty: avoiding eye contact, fidgeting, and giving me short answers.
