shifty

shifty
adj
1. tricky, crafty, artful, cunning, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, sly as a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, Archaic. parlous, sharp, astute, wary, Inf. cagey; evasive, elusive, hard to catch, slippery, smooth, slick; insidious, guileful, disingenuous, scheming, plotting, designing, calculating, contriving; deceptive, deceitful, crooked, dishonest, underhanded, Inf. left-handed; false, false-hearted, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced.
2. resourceful, clever, ingenious, inventive, Daedalian.

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  • Shifty — Shift y, a. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance. Wright. [1913 Webster] Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure. C.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • shifty — index dishonest, disingenuous, evasive, fraudulent, furtive, machiavellian, perfidious, sly, subtle ( …   Law dictionary

  • shifty — (adj.) 1570, able to manage for oneself, from SHIFT (Cf. shift) (v.) in secondary sense + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning using dishonest methods first recorded 1837 …   Etymology dictionary

  • shifty — [adj] deceitful, untrustworthy cagey, collusive, conniving, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, dodging, duplicitous, elusive, equivocating, evasive, flyby night*, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious,… …   New thesaurus

  • shifty — ► ADJECTIVE (shiftier, shiftiest) informal ▪ deceitful or evasive. DERIVATIVES shiftily adverb shiftiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • shifty — [shif′tē] adj. shiftier, shiftiest 1. Now Rare full of shifts or expedients; resourceful 2. having or showing a tricky or deceitful nature; evasive shiftily adv. shiftiness n …   English World dictionary

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  • shifty — UK [ˈʃɪftɪ] / US adjective Word forms shifty : adjective shifty comparative shiftier superlative shiftiest informal looking dishonest shifty eyes …   English dictionary

  • shifty — adjective (shiftier; est) Date: circa 1570 1. full of or ready with expedients ; resourceful 2. a. given to deception, evasion, or fraud ; tricky b. capable of evasive movement ; elusive < a shif …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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