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English Dictionary: shifty by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shifty
adj
  1. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"
    Synonym(s): devious, shifty
  2. changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"
    Synonym(s): shifting, 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.
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