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Synonyms for shifty
adj deceitful, untrustworthy- cagey
- crafty
- shrewd
- slippery
- sneaky
- tricky
- wily
- collusive
- conniving
- contriving
- crooked
- cunning
- devious
- dishonest
- dodging
- duplicitous
- elusive
- equivocating
- evasive
- fly-by-night
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- insidious
- lying
- mendacious
- prevaricative
- prevaricatory
- roguish
- scheming
- shady
- shuffling
- slick
- slimy
- sly
- treacherous
- underhand
- unhonest
- unprincipled
- untruthful
Antonyms for shifty
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
cunning
adjective. devious
deceitful
adjective. dishonest, insincere
- artful
- astucious
- astute
- beguiling
- clandestine
- counterfeit
- crafty
- cunning
- deceiving
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- fallacious
- false
- feline
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hypocritical
- illusory
- impostrous
- indirect
- insidious
- knavish
- lying
- mendacious
- misleading
- rascal
- roguish
- shifty
- slick
- sly
- sneaky
- stealthy
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wily
deceptive
adjective. dishonest
- ambiguous
- astucious
- beguiling
- bum
- catchy
- crafty
- cunning
- deceitful
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- delusory
- designing
- disingenuous
- fake
- fallacious
- false
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- illusory
- imposturous
- indirect
- insidious
- lying
- misleading
- mock
- oblique
- off
- phony
- plausible
- rascal
- roguish
- scheming
- seeming
- serpentine
- shifty
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- subtle
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- underhand
- underhanded
- unreliable
- wily
devious
adjective. dishonest, crafty
- artful
- calculating
- crooked
- deceitful
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- errant
- erring
- evasive
- faking one out
- fishy
- foxy
- fraudulent
- guileful
- indirect
- insidious
- insincere
- not straightforward
- oblique
- obliquitous
- playing games
- playing politics
- put on
- roundabout
- scheming
- shady
- shifty
- shrewd
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhanded
- wily
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.