Shifty

ahd-5
  • adjective. Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
  • adjective. Distinguished by frequent changes in direction.
  • adjective. Able to accomplish what is needed; resourceful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Changeable; changeful; shifting; fickle; wavering: as, shifty principles.
  • Full of shifts; fertile in expedients; well able to shift for one's self.
  • Given to or characterized by shifts, tricks, or artifices; fertile in dodges or evasions; tricky.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes.
  • adjective. Subject to frequent changes in direction.
  • adjective. Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. changing position or direction
  • adjective. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive
    • Word Usage
    "This makes explicit what was part of the subtext of my essay: Even Microsoft doesn't do this kind of shifty crap anymore, if they can help it."
    Equivalent
    unsteady  untrustworthy  untrusty  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    fifty  nifty  thrifty  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    avaricious  crafty  devious  distrustful  downcast  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Machiavellian  Machiavellic  acute  adrift  afloat  
    variant
    shiftier  shiftiest  
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