shifty

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: shift=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

shifty, 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shifty, adj. colloq. (shiftier, shiftiest) not straightforward; evasive; deceitful.

Derivative

shiftily adv. shiftiness n.

THESAURUS

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