shiftily

Example Sentences

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Stiller, reprising his role as President Trump’s embattled attorney, Michael Cohen, shiftily sidles up to a phone booth and calls Trump, who is sitting in the Oval Office reading Par 4 magazine.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2018

“Laggies” is never more fun than when he calls Megan into his office, shiftily cross-examining her.

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2014

"I think it was The Sun, in England," he ventured shiftily.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2010

But he now, without warning anybody, privately revoked said word of honor; and Collini and he, next morning, whisked shiftily into a hackney-coach, and were on the edge of being clear off.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas

From it a pair of close-set, shallow brown eyes looked shiftily.

From The Everlasting Whisper by Gregory, Jackson