Used in a Sentence

shifty

How to use shifty in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for shifty.

Editorial note

At least to me, it makes you seem like a shifty politician trying to hide her agenda.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shifty gathered in one view.

adjective

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

adjective

changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shifty.

adjective

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

adjective

changing position or direction; "he drifted into the shifting crowd"; "their nervous shifting glances"; "shifty winds"

Example sentences

1

At least to me, it makes you seem like a shifty politician trying to hide her agenda.

2

That's an awful shifty way to tell a story of something moving down over time.... Plus - how did they select these six?

3

I'd be really happy if they'd just do the world a favor and go out of business so someone less shifty could take over.

4

These poor guys where born in the wrong countries, here they are poor slobs forced to illegally install shifty software to watch their 'slaves'.

5

But the onus is definitely on the prospective employee to press them for the facts, and recognize people for being shifty.

6

Where I live, the weather is as shifty as the politicians, and the temperature dances around what's comfortable.

7

And then I got stopped in a traffic stop with him - as he speeds all the time - and he was shifty, dodgy, couldn't look the cop in the eye, and gave clipped in his verbal responses.

8

If the most junior employee of the Ministry of Justice has a bad morning and decides I look shifty, he has an instant Ruin My Life button on his computer.

9

Private keys and other shifty thingsThis was a SOP at a company I worked at, for any repository, either for OSS or when delivered as work product to customers.

10

It both makes the rules of what law enforcement is allowed to do shifty and unprincipled, it also makes legitimate deployments of law enforcement pointlessly difficult.

11

If there's a legit system issue with the trading market that the Zynga has no control over sure, I get that, but to keep traders from reacting to the state of the company and/or market itself is pretty shifty.

12

It's unconscious, and if we're lucky we'll catch ourselves doing it to a person and try to mitigate the circumstance with shifty glances elsewhere, but our eyes will always be drawn back as soon as our concentration wavers.

13

I would rather they deny someone an account than wait until that account has racked up a huge pile of money before suddenly deciding it's too risky to be doing business with the company that money legally belongs to, and that they need to just hang on to all of someone else money just in case they go out of business... say from some shifty company stealing all their money right when they need it most.

14

So, what used to be regarded as a dispute over garbage at the local dump becomes a massive environmental enforcement action by which dozens of parties face multi-million dollar liabilities; what used to be a distribution chain in which only the end-point seller typically bore liability to the consumer becomes massive product liability suits going back to the manufacturers and imposing strict liability on them in ways that can ruin a multi-billion business; what used to be the $.25 that a cab driver overcharged you because of some shifty trade practice becomes a major class action in which all the vendors in the area are swept in to face a protracted legal fight and potentially substantial damage exposure; etc., etc., etc.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shifty in a sentence?

At least to me, it makes you seem like a shifty politician trying to hide her agenda.

What does shifty mean?

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

What part of speech is shifty?

shifty is commonly used as adjective.