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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.
Shifty definition: resourceful; fertile in expedients.. See examples of SHIFTY used in a sentence.
Definition of 'shifty' Word Frequency. shifty. (ʃɪfti ) Word forms: comparative shiftier, superlative 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.
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.
Shifty definition: Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
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. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English shift‧y /ˈʃɪfti/ adjective informal looking dishonest He looks a bit shifty to me. shifty eyes —shiftily adverb Examples from the Corpus shifty • She regarded him suspiciously, but couldn't find anything shifty about him.
