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- Dictionaryshifty/ˈʃɪfti/
adjective
- 1. (of a person or their manner) appearing deceitful or evasive: "he had a shifty look about him"
- 2. constantly changing; shifting: "it was a close race in a shifty wind on smooth water"
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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.
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.
1. Rare. full of shifts or expedients; resourceful. 2. having or showing a tricky or deceitful nature; evasive.
Definition of shifty adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
Synonyms for SHIFTY: shady, sneaky, slippery, sly, furtive, stealthy, crooked, dark; Antonyms of SHIFTY: straightforward, forthright, direct, open, plain, frank, candid, plainspoken.
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.
Someone who looks shifty looks dishonest. (Definition of shifty from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of shifty
