Thesaurus: shifty

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1. a. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
2. adj. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive
3. adj. changing position or direction
4. 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.
5. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients orcontrivance. Wright.Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few thingshe could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure. C.Kingsley.
6. j:100 s characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive s changing position or direction