Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shifty"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shifty \Shift"y\, a.
Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or
contrivance. --Wright.
Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there
were few things he could not invent, and perhaps
nothing he could not endure. --C. Kingsley.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shifty
adj : characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious
character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: {devious}]
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