shifty
Example Sentences
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On the hunt for her next scoop—“the kind of thing people kill for”—she makes an appointment with a shifty potential source.
She has a knack for heightening moments and introducing characters that range from sad, weird loners to shifty and overconfident schemers.
From Los Angeles Times
Autumn’s eyes grow shifty, darting back and forth between me, Ama, and Woo.
From Literature
But those multimillion-dollar views come with a problem no amount of money can fix: The homes are built on some of the shiftiest and most unreliable soil in California.
From Los Angeles Times
Occult pyrotechnics and bloody business of all kinds are not allowed to obscure the interior shifts of the shifty Macbeths.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
