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# shifty

«shifty» in Mova's school dictionary: **sly, not honest, and not to be trusted; a shifty person…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (shifty, shiftier, shiftiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Shifty means sly, not honest, and not to be trusted; a shifty person often looks away or hides what he is doing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shifty/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a clever trickster who tries to fool others; often a nickname, such as «the Shifty Lad»

### examples

- The shifty man kept his eyes on the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shifty/#x1)
- The Shifty Lad jumped for joy when his trick worked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shifty/#x2)
- Don't trust him; he has a shifty look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shifty/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shifty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shifty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.