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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shifty
adj : characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious
character"; "shifty eyes" [syn: devious]
[also: shiftiest, shiftier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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