shiftiness

Owing to their extreme shiftiness of soil, the Dunes can attain no considerable elevation.

This did not serve to remove the impression of shiftiness, for her answers were seldom to the point.

His eyes lost their shiftiness—he seemed to forget the presence of the great man standing at the other side of the table.

It was a betrayal of glibness, of lightly-founded character, a shiftiness which must pass.

Sewell talked with that blended munificence and shiftiness, which seems a specialty with a certain order of men.