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What does shifty mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word shifty? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Subject to frequent changes in direction.
  2. Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal or unreliable.
  3. Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
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He also uses anatomising skill to get under the skin of these shifty doctors.
They have figured out how to rip off shareholder funds by moving to shifty offshore domiciles.
It seems like a shifty way to completely screw your computer up if you ask me.
It's not considered uncool or in some way shifty to be involved in politics, which is probably a healthy thing.
I want to be able to talk to him and act like I normally do around my friends... lolz... like not being all jumpy or shifty.
But he's shifty and elusive in the open field and could preserve the big-play ability Smith may otherwise miss on kick returns.

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