'Shifty' definitions:
Definition of 'shifty'
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Definition of 'Shifty'
From: GCIDE
- Shifty \Shift"y\, a. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance. --Wright. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster] Shiite
Synonyms of 'shifty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- amorphous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- bent,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- collusive,
- conniving,
- conscienceless,
- conspiratorial,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dizzy,
- dodging,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- eccentric,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocating,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fast and loose,
- feline,
- felonious,
- fickle,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- freakish,
- furtive,
- giddy,
- guileful,
- hazardous,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- ingenious,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- insubstantial,
- inventive,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- knavish,
- knowing,
- lying,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- malingering,
- mazy,
- mendacious,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- not kosher,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- politic,
- precarious,
- privy,
- provisional,
- questionable,
- quiet,
- rambling,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- restless,
- risky,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- shapeless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undisciplined,
- unethical,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfixed,
- unobtrusive,
- unpredictable,
- unprincipled,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstraightforward,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wary,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wily,
- wishy-washy,
- without remorse,
- without shame