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Synonyms for shifty

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characterized by insincerity or deceit

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changing position or direction

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Cameron sets out to move the body, but when Chas notices he's being even shiftier than usual, she decides to follow him...
He added: "He looks shiftier than Arthur Daley, and you would not buy a car from him.
Williams was viewed as a bigger back who might have provided a change of pace from the smaller, shiftier players joining him on the Oregon depth chart.
In fairness, Williamson's Fletch is a slightly different beast, playing it shiftier and more remote than Barker's original, but that doesn't necessarily help foster a genuine relationship with Daniel West's Godber.
The product now has the capability of accessing a more comprehensive library of consumer behaviors and attitudes using syndicated resources such as Mediamark Research and Intelligence LLC, Scarborough Research and DK Shiftier and Associates.
HE can't help the way he looks but the McCanns' new PR boss, Clarence Mitchell, looks shiftier than your average car salesman.
Recent critics have amply demonstrated how English perceptions of and experiences with the Ottoman world or the "East" were shiftier and far more variable than this static stereotype of the "cruel despot" allows.
When the Catholic protesters upended wheelbarrows full of dirt in the midst of the flag-waving crowd, scuffling broke out followed by gunfire in which a young Protestant man, George Shiftier, was killed.
Mouthy, pushy Cockney wide-boys, looking shiftier than a fox with a guilty conscience under their obligatory baseball caps.
My viewpoint is made more complicated by my being here, and my response to poetic language is shiftier. Language seems more substantial and less precise, more about texture and presence and less about meaning in terms of individual words.
Fallon couldn't have looked or sounded shiftier if he'd tried when he popped up on ITV News on Tuesday night, and his assertion that "it would be impossible to fix a race" was as risible as it was tactically ill-advised.
Of their running backs, the heftier Antowain Smith usually features more on sludgy home fields, while the shiftier Kevin Faulk has been utilised more on artificial pitches.
Blister agent was applied to arms and left scars--Dave Shiftier, 14326 Garland Ave., Apple Valley, MN 55124; (952) 997-7491; ddshiflet@msn.com.
Beneath the poete maudit of legend, Robb discloses another, far shiftier, far more human, character: not at all the "angelheaded hipster" whom the Beats idolized but a wary, shy, often eager-to-please adolescent, touchingly enthused to squire his mother and sister around London on a two-week sightseeing tour.