Meanings of shiftiness in English

Answer me in plain words, without a lie, and without shiftiness.

The French are entirely without what New Englanders call shiftiness.

But there was no shyness or shiftiness about Berks's fighting.

His eyes were dull; they lacked their wonted shiftiness.

But the international community is up in arms over the shiftiness of the single-party socialist nation.

Wimbush marveled at the shiftiness of the Georgia front seven and the unit as a whole.

The book is also an intense, unsentimental love story, and a study of the shiftiness of identity.

Wright has the type of shiftiness to make Jones be in for a long day on defense.

The shiftiness in his manner unsettled her nerves, and little, icy bumps appeared across her tingling flesh.

This did not serve to remove the impression of shiftiness, for her answers were seldom to the point.

The want of "shiftiness" is a national characteristic.

Evil living and sordid passions had coarsened his features, produced bagginess under the eyes and a shiftiness of glance.

It, too, has its manual of feints, holds, tricks, and specialties, and calls out wariness, quickness, strength, and shiftiness.

The disproportion between the shiftiness of these men and the rigorous Acts that they passed or authorized was too scandalous.

There is no shiftiness.

With characteristic shiftiness, the Coens prove themselves simultaneously in love with the early folk scene and wary of mythologising that world.