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synonyms for shifty
- 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
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How to use shifty in a sentence
Through some shifty maneuvering, I cut the line and managed to be one of the first ones in.
Partying With the Golden Globes Stars: Taylor Swift Cuts a Rug, Ben Affleck Holds Court, and More | Marlow Stern | January 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat would a Mad Man think if he was picked out of a crowd and searched because someone thought that he looked shifty?
Living in the Land of the Free Doesn’t Make You Free | Walter Mosley | July 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhether you like or loathe the AMC mystery, you love Holder, the shifty cop played by Joel Kinnaman.
Fat ones, skinny ones, shifty-eyed ones with pencil moustaches and electronic ankle bracelets.
Her eyes, now kindling again as she recovered from her recent fears, sought Fortunio's shifty glance.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniDo, said Dangerfield, who by now was in a high pitch of excitement, staring with shifty suspicion at the woman.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonHe wore a sarcastic smile on his face, and his shifty eyes seemed to be constantly looking for a resting-place.
A Little Union Scout | Joel Chandler HarrisHis genial, shifty, pliable, and yet persistent personality was forced to humour obstacles and to fawn on circumstance.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziNow they were inclined to be shifty and evasive and not always over civil; and all this had come about suddenly.
A Frontier Mystery | Bertram Mitford
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