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Meanings of shiftiness in inglés

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The quality of being a slippery rascal.

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Examples for "rascality"
Examples for "rascality"
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Sophia revolted at this crowning detail of the structure of Gerald's rascality.
The Old Wives' Tale
2
Now, do you see treason, bad faith, avarice, ingratitude, rascality in it?
Hard Cash
3
You may be quite easy; I give you credit for all imaginable rascality.
Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough'
4
Poachers and petty thieves-thescum of misery, ignorance, and rascality throughout the country.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
5
This brief history of rascality brought smiles to the faces of all present.
Eveline Mandeville / Or, The Horse Thief Rival
1
He was not ready for the power and slipperiness of the tooth.
Servant of a dark god
2
Such is the slipperiness of the surface, it's an almost futile effort.
News.com.au
3
I did not leave Mr. Thornton's till ten, because of the slipperiness.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
4
The trouble with the term new economy is its McLuhanesque slipperiness.
Wired
5
This slipperiness, and a 146lb weight reduction, help trim fuel consumption rather significantly.
BBC
1
I admired you for your courage and your determination and your trickiness.
Dayworld Breakup
2
He called upon all his shrewdness, all his trickiness of the South.
A Spirit in Prison
3
Well did Dave Darrin know the trickiness of both these Army players!
Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point / Or, Ready to Drop th...
4
Her temper, her vanity, her headstrong trickiness are Catherine Earnshaw.
The Three Brontës
5
Now of what did my devilish trickiness rob you?
Revenge!
Usage of shiftiness in inglés
1
Answer me in plain words, without a lie, and without shiftiness.
Our Friend the Charlatan
2
The French are entirely without what New Englanders call shiftiness.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
3
But there was no shyness or shiftiness about Berks's fighting.
Rodney Stone
4
His eyes were dull; they lacked their wonted shiftiness.
The Stowaway Girl
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But the international community is up in arms over the shiftiness of the single-party socialist nation.
Ebony
6
Wimbush marveled at the shiftiness of the Georgia front seven and the unit as a whole.
Reuters
7
The book is also an intense, unsentimental love story, and a study of the shiftiness of identity.
The Guardian
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Wright has the type of shiftiness to make Jones be in for a long day on defense.
Reuters
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The shiftiness in his manner unsettled her nerves, and little, icy bumps appeared across her tingling flesh.
The notorious scoundrel
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This did not serve to remove the impression of shiftiness, for her answers were seldom to the point.
She Stands Accused
11
The want of "shiftiness" is a national characteristic.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
12
Evil living and sordid passions had coarsened his features, produced bagginess under the eyes and a shiftiness of glance.
Simon the Jester
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It, too, has its manual of feints, holds, tricks, and specialties, and calls out wariness, quickness, strength, and shiftiness.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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The disproportion between the shiftiness of these men and the rigorous Acts that they passed or authorized was too scandalous.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
15
There is no shiftiness.
The Guardian
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With characteristic shiftiness, the Coens prove themselves simultaneously in love with the early folk scene and wary of mythologising that world.
The Irish Times
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