Definitions for shifty

shifty shift·y

Spelling: [shif-tee]
IPA: /ˈʃɪf ti/

Shifty is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in shifty (fhisty).

Definitions for shifty

adjective

  1. resourceful; fertile in expedients.
  2. given to or full of evasions; tricky.
  3. suggesting a deceptive or evasive character:

Origin of shifty

First recorded in 1560-70; shift + -y1

Examples for shifty

He gave an impression of dry dinginess, like rawhide, and his eyes were mean and shifty.

Most teachers know better, but let the shifty and dull pass by.

He stared at her fixedly, his shifty eyes for once held steady.

Conboy looked at him with quick flashing of his shifty eyes.

The shifty, ungenerous spirit of compromise awoke in Raymount.

Eccles faced him unwillingly, with a stolid front but shifty eyes.

“I am that,” exclaimed the other, with a gleam of cupidity in his shifty eyes.

He's all right in his way, but he's as shifty as a jumpin' bean.

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

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

Word Value for shifty
Scrable

15

Words with friends

13

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