| 词汇 | shifty |
| 释义 | shifty adjective uk /ˈʃɪf.ti/ us /ˈʃɪf.ti/ looking or seeming dishonest: （看上去）不老实的，诡诈的 He has shifty eyes.他的眼睛贼溜溜的。 There's a couple of shifty-looking people standing on the street corner.街角站着几个贼头贼脑的人。 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 Related wordsshiftily shiftiness shifty | American Dictionaryshifty adjective[ -er/-est only ] disapprovingus/ˈʃɪf·ti/ intelligent and skilled in deceiving others: His shifty eyes make him look like a used-car salesman. Examples of shiftyshifty Her heroes are always fair of form and strong in jaw line, while her villains are correspondingly flabby and shifty-eyed. The system is highly organized, but the text/body itself, because of its nature as text, remains a shifty haze of signs. Current models of the creative process in cultural theory remain either silent or shifty about this sort of question. Adjectives in -y/-ie can also frequently be metaphorical (lippy, shifty) and occasionally truncated (bolshie). Does history move against a ground of some kind, the also shifty ground of 'meaning,' if not the supposedly stabler ground of 'nature'? But many shifty crooks and nasty people are involved in the worldwide trade in ivory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cameras can make the phoney look truthful, and the truthful shifty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will we have the chance for such debates, or will we continue to have such shifty debates when we do not discuss the fundamental issues? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought that he was a bit shifty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The answers that we were given were evasive and shifty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know whether they had in mind people who looked a bit shifty or people with funny accents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is shown up to be shifty and incompetent, but, luckily, he will not be here very much longer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have put forward a defence which is, at best, casually inadequate and, at worst, plain shifty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because, however, society has largely ostracised them, the good and the bad, they tend to be suspicious and what people call shifty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not people who have shifty eyes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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