shiftier; shiftiest
Examples of shifty in a Sentence
shifty politicians making deals to channel federal funds into their districts
shifty practices such as turning back the odometers on used cars
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Claire, who blows in and out of Kate’s life, turns up one night pleading for help and telling tales about an accident involving her shifty boyfriend Ryan (Edmund Donovan).
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 June 2025
By associating vibes with AI, doing so is an outrageous and shifty means of subliminally implying that AI is mysterious, perhaps bordering on possessing sentience.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
And the staff lined up just to say goodbye / Tiny tear in his shifty little eye.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
That blandness has gone hand in hand with a shifty political opportunism, marked by half-hearted representational milestones—Ariel is Black!
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 June 2025
By associating vibes with AI, doing so is an outrageous and shifty means of subliminally implying that AI is mysterious, perhaps bordering on possessing sentience.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
And the staff lined up just to say goodbye / Tiny tear in his shifty little eye.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
That blandness has gone hand in hand with a shifty political opportunism, marked by half-hearted representational milestones—Ariel is Black!
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shifty
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“Shifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shifty. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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