shifty
adjective
resourceful; fertile in expedients.
shiftily
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a word derived from
shifty.
Example Sentences
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Stiller, reprising his role as President Trump’s embattled attorney, Michael Cohen, shiftily sidles up to a phone booth and calls Trump, who is sitting in the Oval Office reading Par 4 magazine.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2018
“Laggies” is never more fun than when he calls Megan into his office, shiftily cross-examining her.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2014
"I think it was The Sun, in England," he ventured shiftily.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2010
Then he advanced to the battle, swinging one end of the cot wide and shiftily sidestepping.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
But he now, without warning anybody, privately revoked said word of honor; and Collini and he, next morning, whisked shiftily into a hackney-coach, and were on the edge of being clear off.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle
