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shiftiness

How to use shiftiness in a sentence

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.

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

My father was a perfectly honest man, and hated shiftiness even worse than downright lying.

"No, I'm not," said Rickie, thinking of his recent shiftiness over breakfast.

His glance was roving, flashing here and there with a shiftiness and speed that bewildered.

With all his shiftiness Erasmus would hardly have gone as far as that.

Francis, as a boxer, excelled in what is known in pugilistic circles as shiftiness.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985