From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English shift‧y/ˈʃɪfti/adjectiveinformallookingdishonestHelooksa bitshiftyto me.shifty eyes—shiftilyadverb Examples from the Corpus shifty•Sheregardedhim suspiciously, but couldn't find anythingshiftyabout him.•There's somethingshiftyabout thatguy....
Adjectives in -y/-ie can also frequently be metaphorical (lippy,shifty) and occasionally truncated (bolshie). From theCambridge English Corpus Does history move against a ground of some kind, the alsoshiftyground of 'meaning,' if not the supposedly stabler ground of 'nature'? From theCambridg...
Meaning "habitually using dishonest methods, characterized by trickery" first recorded 1837. In a sense "prone to shifting," of the wind, used from 1884. Related: Shiftily; shiftiness.双语例句1. He had a shifty face and previous convictions. 他看起来贼眉鼠眼,而且有犯罪前科。 来自柯林斯...
1560s, "well able to manage for oneself, fertile in expedients," fromshift(n.1) in secondary sense of "dodge, trick, artifice" +-y(2). The meaning "habitually using dishonest methods, characterized by trickery, not straightforward" is by 1837. Of the wind, in a sense of "prone to ...
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Proverbs 16:30 Meaning and Commentary Proverbs 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things Or "perverse" or "contrary things" F18; he shuts his eyes, that his thoughts might not be disturbed and distracted by visible objects, but might be more free and composed, and intent upon...