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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shifty  \Shift"y\,  a. 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shifty 
  adj  :  characterized  by  insincerity  or  deceit;  evasive;  "a  devious 
  character";  "shifty  eyes"  [syn:  {devious}] 




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