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Shiftiness

noun
1.
The quality of being a slippery rascal.  Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness.
2.
The quality of being changeable in direction.






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"Shiftiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... impropriety being discovered. Had they mentioned it openly in Parliament on October 11, the matter might have ended there. But they lacked the nerve: the occasion passed: and nothing remained, especially for Rufus, but evasion, shiftiness, half-truth passing as whole truth, the farce of indignant virtue—a performance which left him not a shred of dignity and ought to have made it unthinkable that he should ever again be given public office. The perfect word on the whole episode ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... nervousness still further exaggerated by the restless white hands. Over all, like a black veil, was an expression as of one haunted by a great fear. The man both repelled and interested Donaldson. There was a shiftiness about the eyes that excited suspicion, and yet there was in them a silent plea that asked for sympathy. Save for the eyes, the face had a certain poetic beauty due to its fine modeling and its savage intensity. The longer Donaldson studied it, the more sympathy he had ...
— The Seventh Noon • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... plain words, without a lie, and without shiftiness. Do you know that Lord Dymchurch has proposed ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing



Words linked to "Shiftiness" :   changeableness, trickiness, rascality, dishonesty, shifty, slipperiness, changeability



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