词汇 | shiftily |
释义 | shiftily adverb uk /ˈʃɪf.təl.i/ us /ˈʃɪf.təl.i/ in a way that looks or seems dishonest: 不老实地,诡诈地 He was behaving shiftily and you jumped to the conclusion that he was following you.他的行为很诡异,你就贸然断定他在跟踪你。 He glanced shiftily to both sides then leaned closer. 他贼溜溜地左右扫了一眼,然后凑近了些。 See shifty "It could be dangerous being your age," he said shiftily, avoiding my eye. When I meet him in his west London hotel, he hides shiftily beneath a woolly hat. I spotted her scurrying towards me, wearing sunglasses, and looking shiftily from side to side. Dishonest artificiality bad faith be rotten to the coreidiom bent cowboy dubiously false finagle fishy fly-by-night malfeasance mendacious mendaciously misleading misleadingly under false pretencesphrase underhand unreliability unreliable unscrupulous Examples of shiftilyshiftily I moistened my lips and glanced shiftily around the office. From Project Gutenberg In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily. From Project Gutenberg His eyes, gleaming with blood-passion, traveled shiftily so that he could keep watch on both his possible adversaries. From Project Gutenberg Men met his level glance, fairly, with swift certainty that here stood a man, four-square; or shiftily, according to their ease of conscience, knowing his breed. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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