shiftiness
English
Noun
shiftiness (countable and uncountable, plural shiftinesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being shifty.
- 1973, Socialist Review, volume 8, page 331:
- Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being shifty.
- 1918, Allan Noble Monkhouse, Men and Ghosts, page 73:
- I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.
Translations
the property of being shifty
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