Examples of 'shifty' in a sentence

Meaning of "shifty"

When describing someone as 'shifty,' it means that person is evasive, unreliable, or untrustworthy in their behavior or actions
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  • Subject to frequent changes in direction.
  • Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.
  • Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal, or unreliable.
  • Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.

How to use "shifty" in a sentence

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Sure are a lot of shifty people around here.
The shifty never leaves the tourists.
Did not like his shifty little eyes.
I thought at the time he looked a bit shifty.
Do not like his shifty little eyes.
Those freelance spies are really a shifty lot.
She has a shifty look in her eye.
I knew there was something shifty about you.
Electricity is shifty and hotels are in short supply.
This makes existentialism shifty and pliable.
Shifty wants us to meet his family.
I have got enough shifty strangers at work.
I can not help feeling rather shifty.
About all that shifty stuff you do.
But this sand is so loose and shifty.

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He does look awful shifty about the eyes.
And they tell her she is shifty.
Listen also to the shifty time signatures.
Uyghur jihadis are notoriously secretive and shifty.
You know how many shifty people.
Just a shifty little poof.
Your boy certainly looks shifty enough.
Do not be shifty with the boys.
I thought there was something shifty about him.
It was quite shifty with pressure differences.
You can not fight the shifty shadow.
Shifty LaFlamme once again.
Never trust a girl with shifty eyes.
She looked shifty for a moment.
They want someone to take a shifty tonight.
They are shifty and careful.
The wind is very puffy and shifty.
That little guy is shifty right there.
Always the sign of someone shifty.
Look at his shifty little eyes.
Maybe more beady than shifty.
Then it looks all shifty and starts meowing.
I know how you are with shifty.
Look at her shifty snake eyes.
Simeon sent an army to conquer the shifty archon.
His eyes are shifty and cunning.
It makes them look a bit shifty.
His gaze is shifty and devious.
You are just an ordinary criminal with shifty eyes.
I can see a shifty guy in a hat.
The reason was a bit shifty.
I think that you are shifty and actually annoying.
Shifty and staring eyes.
I think you are full of shifty chicanery and subterfuge.
They do look pretty shifty.

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