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shiftily

/shif-tee/US // ˈʃɪf ti //UK // (ˈʃɪftɪ) //

轮流地,轮流,轮班地,轮班

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    shift·i·er, shift·i·est.

    • : resourceful; fertile in expedients.
    • : given to or full of evasions; tricky.
    • : suggesting a deceptive or evasive character: a shifty look.

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Examples

  • Through some shifty maneuvering, I cut the line and managed to be one of the first ones in.

  • What would a Mad Man think if he was picked out of a crowd and searched because someone thought that he looked shifty?

  • Whether you like or loathe the AMC mystery, you love Holder, the shifty cop played by Joel Kinnaman.

  • Fat ones, skinny ones, shifty-eyed ones with pencil moustaches and electronic ankle bracelets.

  • Her eyes, now kindling again as she recovered from her recent fears, sought Fortunio's shifty glance.

  • Do, said Dangerfield, who by now was in a high pitch of excitement, staring with shifty suspicion at the woman.

  • He wore a sarcastic smile on his face, and his shifty eyes seemed to be constantly looking for a resting-place.

  • His genial, shifty, pliable, and yet persistent personality was forced to humour obstacles and to fawn on circumstance.

  • Now they were inclined to be shifty and evasive and not always over civil; and all this had come about suddenly.