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Definitions for Shifty

[1] resourceful; fertile in expedients.
[2] given to or full of evasions; tricky.
[3] suggesting a deceptive or evasive character: a shifty look.
[4] given to evasions; artful
[5] furtive in character or appearance
[6] full of expedients; resourceful

Words related to Shifty

tricky, wily, sneaky, shrewd, slippery, cagey, crafty, collusive, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, duplicitous, elusive, evasive, fly-by-night, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious

Words nearby Shifty

shifter, shifting cultivation, shifting spanner, shiftless, shiftwork, shifty, shiga-kruse bacillus, shigella, shigella boydii, shigella dysenteriae, shigella flexneri

Origin of Shifty

First recorded in 1560–70; shift + -y1

Other words from Shifty

shift·i·ly , adverb
shift·i·ness , noun
un·shift·y , adjective

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