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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。
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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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 shiftily


shiftily
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
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