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Shiftiness

noun

The quality of being a slippery rascal. Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness.

The quality of being changeable in direction.

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"Shiftiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... that he had made his money through a series of commercial speculations distinguished both by shiftiness and daring, and that the man himself had been until the War a wholly negligible "poor white" person,—an overseer, indeed, for "Wild Will" Musgrave, Colonel Musgrave's father, who was of course the same Lieutenant-Colonel William ...

— The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations • James Branch Cabell

... am afraid. I look at the three without—well, with as little prejudice as weak woman may. Mallinson, you know him—always on the artist's see-saw between exaltation and despair. Doesn't that make for shiftiness generally? Clarice I don't understand; but I incline to your idea of her as at the mercy of every momentary emotion, and the more for what has happened this week. Since her engagement she seems to have ...

— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason

... in plain words, without a lie, and without shiftiness. Do you know that Lord Dymchurch has proposed ...

— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

Words linked to "Shiftiness" : shifty, changeability, dishonesty, changeableness, trickiness, rascality, slipperiness