shifty

shifty
Synonyms and related words:
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

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shifty — shifty; make·shifty; …   English syllables

  • shifty — index dishonest, disingenuous, evasive, fraudulent, furtive, machiavellian, perfidious, sly, subtle ( …   Law dictionary

  • shifty — (adj.) 1570, able to manage for oneself, from SHIFT (Cf. shift) (v.) in secondary sense + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning using dishonest methods first recorded 1837 …   Etymology dictionary

  • shifty — [adj] deceitful, untrustworthy cagey, collusive, conniving, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, devious, dishonest, dodging, duplicitous, elusive, equivocating, evasive, flyby night*, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, insidious, lying, mendacious,… …   New thesaurus

  • shifty — ► ADJECTIVE (shiftier, shiftiest) informal ▪ deceitful or evasive. DERIVATIVES shiftily adverb shiftiness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • shifty — [shif′tē] adj. shiftier, shiftiest 1. Now Rare full of shifts or expedients; resourceful 2. having or showing a tricky or deceitful nature; evasive shiftily adv. shiftiness n …   English World dictionary

  • Shifty — wiktionarypar|shiftyShifty may refer to: * Shifty Shellshock (b. 1974), American nu metal singer * Shifty Records, South African record label * Shifty Records (USA), American record label specializing in metal * Shifty, a fictional character in… …   Wikipedia

  • shifty — UK [ˈʃɪftɪ] / US adjective Word forms shifty : adjective shifty comparative shiftier superlative shiftiest informal looking dishonest shifty eyes …   English dictionary

  • shifty — adjective (shiftier; est) Date: circa 1570 1. full of or ready with expedients ; resourceful 2. a. given to deception, evasion, or fraud ; tricky b. capable of evasive movement ; elusive < a shif …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • shifty — adjective a) Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes. He was a shifty character in a seedy bar and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him. b) Subject to frequent… …   Wiktionary

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