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Shifty synonyms

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tricky
Adept at using deception
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  1. Adept at using deception
  2. Hard to deal with, complicated
  3. Requiring caution or skill:
cunning
Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute:
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  1. Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute:
  2. Attractive or pretty in a delicate way; cute
  3. (Now Rare) Skillful or clever
sneaky
Dishonest; deceitful
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  1. Dishonest; deceitful
  2. Of or like a sneak; underhanded
  3. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
devious
Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
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  1. Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
  2. Not straightforward; shifty:
  3. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
disingenuous
Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
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  1. Not noble; unbecoming true honor or dignity; mean; unworthy; fake or deceptive.
  2. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating:
  3. Slyly deceptive or misleading, typically by means of a pretense of ignorance or unawareness
duplicitous
Having duplicity; deceitful
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  1. Having duplicity; deceitful
  2. Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
guileful
Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
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  1. Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.
indirect
Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.
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  1. Diverging from a direct course; roundabout.
  2. Not directly planned for; secondary:
  3. Not direct
lubricious
Having a slippery or smooth quality:
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  1. Having a slippery or smooth quality:
  2. Full of or displaying sexual desire:
  3. Sexually stimulating; salacious:
sneaky
Dishonest; deceitful
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  1. Dishonest; deceitful
  2. Of or like a sneak; underhanded
  3. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
underhand
(in various ball games, of a ball) thrown etc with the hand brought forward and up from below
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  1. (in various ball games, of a ball) thrown etc with the hand brought forward and up from below
  2. (By extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
  3. Dishonest and sneaky; underhanded.
underhanded
Underhand:
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  1. Underhand:
  2. Acting or done in a deceptive, secret, or sly manner; dishonest and sneaky.
  3. Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
Find another word for shifty. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for shifty, like: tricky, cunning, sneaky, sly, devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, guileful, indirect, lubricious and sneaky.

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  • Napoleon thought him a " shifty Byzantine," and called him the Talma of the North, as ready to play any conspicuous part.

  • Louis of Francis was succeeded by the active, warlike and shifty ~~1i 1.

  • Charles Emmanuel achieved a great reputation as a statesman and warrior, and increased the prestige of Savoy, but he was too shifty and ingenious, and his schemes ended in disaster.

  • The more loyal William Douglas, in 1353, slew his kinsman, the shifty Knight of Liddesdale, on the braes of Yarrow, and a fragment of one of the oldest Scottish ballads deplores his fall.

  • Bruce, previously so shifty, had never wavered or turned back since he smote the Red Comyn at Dumfries.

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