Shifty

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shifty
       adj : characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious
             character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: {devious}]
       [also: {shiftiest}, {shiftier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  235 Moby Thesaurus words for "shifty":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, 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, 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