shifty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive
    devious.
    • a devious character
    • shifty eyes
  2. adjective satellite changing position or direction
    shifting.
    • he drifted into the shifting crowd
    • their nervous shifting glances
    • shifty winds

WordNet

Shift"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance. Wright.
    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.

Webster 1913