Shifty

a.

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Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance. 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.

Adj.

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shifty - characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" Synonyms: devious

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