About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- shifty
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

shifty

 : 
Adjective
 : 
shift=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective shifty has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

shiftya. 
     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
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion