shifty

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Subject to frequent changes in direction.
    — Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand.
  2. Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.
    — 1886, George Manville Fenn, This Man’s Wife, Chapter 3, in Littel’s Living Age, Volume 168, No. 2178, 20 March, 1886, p. 761, […] his quick, shifty eyes turned from the manager to the lethal weapons over the chimney, then to the safe, then to the bank, and Mr. Thickens’s back.
  3. Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal, or unreliable. idiomatic,informal
    — He was a shifty character in a seedy bar, and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
  4. Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
    — Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

词形变化

shiftier comparative shiftiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
shiftily shiftiness shifty-eyed shiftyness unshifty

词源

Etymology tree
English shift
English -y
English shifty
From shift + -y.
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