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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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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.
When I came to, I found myself tightly tied to a steel chair guarded by a few shifty men guarding me with loaded guns.
He stealthed behind her for a few minutes before she turned into an alleyway, where a shifty character stood waiting for her.
Turns out they pay an idiotic sum to a couple of shifty sailors to take them there.
Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.

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