How To Use Shifty In A Sentence
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Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
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His overall appearance was that of a shifty man who couldn't be trusted.
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Hunkin's page coincided with our acquisition of this book by the delightfully-named Shifty Burke, Memoirs of a safe-breaker, published by Arthur Baker Ltd in 1966.
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It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best.
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Not work a shifty deal to remain invisible.
The Sun
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He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days 'growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance.
The Cow Puncher
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Some of the characters, such as spoilt Premiership stars, shifty agents and publicity-mad bimbos, are instantly identifiable with true-life equivalents and not altogether far-fetched.
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His only chance is to outsmart Koch's crew in shifty winds.
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The Baroness (as she was known after her marriage to a shifty nobleman) and her friends worshipped novelty, inappropriateness, audacity, not piously but with ferocious abandon.
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He's gone out of his way not to mention his blue-blooded carousing, because he knows it would make the average citizen puke themselves into a coma, and one side-effect of this is that he seems shifty and suspicious.
Birthday Boy
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And he looked like a shifty dealer just opening his pack.
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It's been like this for a while and they always look shifty around each other.
The Sun
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To all thoseRay 'shifty' saying: "Let the consumer decide
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The upper-class twit is too feather-brained to succeed in management, so his shifty uncle gets him a job as a worker in his missile plant.
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The first is that any refusal to be specific will look shifty and evasive.
Times, Sunday Times
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`No. Scobie, Arnold is shifty and has his hand out for anything you'll put into it, he's the most up-market panhandler I've ever met.
MURDER SONG
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RE a previous post – ‘sleekit’ is a Scots word meaning sly, shifty, conniving, devious etc.
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He didn't look shifty or ashamed.
Times, Sunday Times
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In America, one who is reluctant to maintain eye contact is called shifty-eyed and can arouse suspicion.
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What a shifty arguer he is, refusing ever to give a straight answer.
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Prejudice against beards (pogonophobia) is a relic of an age when beards seemed shifty.
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He stealthed behind her for a few minutes before she turned into an alleyway, where a shifty character stood waiting for her.
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He looked embarrassed and shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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His eyes got a dreamy look (or was that shifty?
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't want any thieving, shifty-eyed shepherds near our inn.
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They have figured out how to rip off shareholder funds by moving to shifty offshore domiciles.
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The old bruiser yesterday did what he does best - deliver a barnstorming, end-of-conference speech packed with one-liners brutally aimed at the hapless Tories and shifty Liberal Democrats.
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On the last lap, the wind freshened and became more shifty.
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Gazing down shows that either you're shifty - and therefore lying - or that you are defeated.
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The shifty look, the evasive stare, the implausible excuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the men in the room were with their girlfriends, looking awkward and shifty.
The Sun
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shifty winds
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Out in the world, people give you sly glances and look shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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But then they just look shifty, as opposed to woeful.
Times, Sunday Times
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shifty eyes
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She was shifty, evasive and clearly unprepared for the assault.
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I didn't trust his shifty expression.
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Then that shifty look came over him again and he scooped up some spare copies of my journals from the sideboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The plot gets muddied with the whose-been-sleeping-with-whom scenario and much shifty eye gazing.
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I want to be able to talk to him and act like I normally do around my friends ... lolz ... like not being all jumpy or shifty.
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The shifty look, the evasive stare, the implausible excuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, he said, he did not agree that he was shifty or dishonest, but he pointed out that he had moved his position on evidence once or twice.
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Out in the world, people give you sly glances and look shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jack's colleagues are a rum lot of shifty-eyed careerists, who'd think nothing of switching off your oxygen supply if they felt it would help them gain access to the next network level.
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Out in the world, people give you sly glances and look shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only had I failed in my duties, but some other guy - a dopey, shifty guy we both knew - had sent her flowers with a card attached.
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But he's shifty and elusive in the open field and could preserve the big-play ability Smith may otherwise miss on kick returns.
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And he looked kind of shifty when I turned up with my Other Half, Andy, in tow.
All Roads Lead To ...
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Ohai, BC, ai will takes dis minion home home home wif meh fur reh…rah….fixin all better an bring himz rite back. *shifty iiz* I pawmise. *runswifakwikness frum BC*
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I suppose United States Senators have been made out of timber a deal smaller than Mart, who was a shrewd, resourceful and shifty old boy with that rugged sort of homeliness which is a good deal better than handsome looks in catching the fancy of the plain people.
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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The overall impression is one of deviance and disorder: legs akimbo, shifty eyes, matches and cigarettes scattered nearby.
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He is the master of looking shifty and he was in the right place at the right time, but he's still protesting his innocence.
The Sun
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All the suspects are looking shifty while loudly proclaiming their innocence.
Times, Sunday Times
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But sideways glances while talking could make you look shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sort of like the scene early in the movie where everyone's young and idealistic and swears they'll never abandon their liberal principles, then one of them gets kind of shifty-eyed . . .
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His manner was shifty; there was guilt written all over his face.
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Like a person hiding behind giant sunglasses, the tower looks shifty and nervous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lets face it being a dealer is a kind of shifty profession.
New Car
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Those eyes should look shifty, but they're hypnotic.
Times, Sunday Times
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This makes explicit what was part of the subtext of my essay: Even Microsoft doesn't do this kind of shifty crap anymore, if they can help it.
All Around The Web - Anil Dash
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`No. Scobie, Arnold is shifty and has his hand out for anything you'll put into it, he's the most up-market panhandler I've ever met.
MURDER SONG
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Some years ago, you ran an article called "Paradigm Shifty Things" which mentioned a company named "Blacklight Power" (blacklightpower. com) who claimed to have a process using "subnuclear" reactions to generate heat, using hydrogen obtained from electrolyzing water, plus a catalyst (argon with a trace of oxygen).
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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In spleenful moments, it seems to me that the most depraved of city-dwellers has flashes of enthusiasm and self-abnegation never experienced by this shifty, retrogressive and ungenerous brood, which lives like the beasts of the field and has learnt all too much of their logic.
Old Calabria
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The shifty look, the evasive stare, the implausible excuse.
Times, Sunday Times
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We may tire of the coy and shifty narrator.
The Times Literary Supplement
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She looks resentful... he looks shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rather than stepping into cushty consultancies like their former leader, all the shifty pro-war New Labour MPs that stood down at the last election could have their JSA withheld unless they retrain?
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Wesley appraised Ted's thick lips as they vibrated, like two fat, pink molluscs performing a shifty rhumba.
BEHINDLINGS
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Outside the quaternion were the dancing Pauppukkeewis, the Whirlwind, and the fierce and shifty hero, Monobozho, the North-West
Nature Mysticism
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The first is that any refusal to be specific will look shifty and evasive.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looks resentful... he looks shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he and his men arrived at the spot on their patrol, they saw four shifty-looking locals run off.
The Sun
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A thin, elegant man with shifty eyes and a high, unpleasant voice, Wood exuded a restless, hurried air.
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Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
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She's that shifty woman slipping sandwiches into her capacious handbag at the buffet.
Times, Sunday Times
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And one day in the month of fodder-burning and the taking of cold baths, Gandolo of the Watchful Eye spied a few shifty-looking men lurking around a merchant’s jade shop, eyeing the expensive wares with the kind of ferrety greed seen in the faces of takers and breakers the world over.
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Everyone looks bored and shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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At first sight, it seems hyena-esque, haunches lower than hackles, kind of shifty-looking.
Times, Sunday Times
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The GOP is now proving that despite their former warnings of doom (when THAT suited their purposes), they now embrace this "shifty" legal strategy as an effective way of illegitimately preventing a Senator from the opposing party from taking office at all.
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It's sort of like arguing that forming the Coalition to begin with was undemocratic: it wasn't; it was just kind of shifty, like the proroguing, arguably depending who you're cheering for was.
I love being right about everything all the time.
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Some of the characters, such as spoilt Premiership stars, shifty agents and publicity-mad bimbos, are instantly identifiable with true-life equivalents and not altogether far-fetched.
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On the last lap, the wind freshened and became more shifty.
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She looks resentful... he looks shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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I looked through the window and there was a shifty-looking guy in a suit.
The Sun
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In fact, come to think of it, he was downright shifty.
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‘The secret to door opening is this, Melissa,’ James glanced around in a shifty manner.
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It's not considered uncool or in some way shifty to be involved in politics, which is probably a healthy thing.
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We're pretty sure there are shifty people somewhere.
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Small wonder, then, that the shifty car salesman has became such a stereotype.
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Bit on the shifty side, but again you quickly forget about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forget traditional summer dresses of the strappy/shifty/sheathy variety.
Times, Sunday Times
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My shifty manner is, I am pretty sure, that of the classic fraudster.
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I'd like to believe there's a "siblinghood of journalists" and that they'd save my chair, but firstly, I'm not a journalist, and secondly, this was a shifty-looking bunch.
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I reckon that Old Shifty won't shift himself until there is absolutely no money left in the tea caddy where they keep the pension dosh.
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And though I didn't look too long - I'm a shifty character whose eyes can't stay in one spot for very long - I noticed that his bluey eyes freakishly matched the lovely blue of his team shirt…
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It seems that the shifty fellow had broken into the small museum in the town and in an unguarded moment had filched the treasure map and a few gold coins.
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He also uses anatomising skill to get under the skin of these shifty doctors.
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He was short, even in his platform shoes, plump and shifty-eyed.
KARA KUSH
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He looked a little shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't trust his shifty expression.
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When I came to, I found myself tightly tied to a steel chair guarded by a few shifty men guarding me with loaded guns.
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The first is that any refusal to be specific will look shifty and evasive.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he peeked inside at the flyleaf he saw the simpering face, the tuft of copper hair that screamed ‘Tintin ‘, the shifty eyes that looked out through a pair of tortoise-shell glasses.’
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She's that shifty woman slipping sandwiches into her capacious handbag at the buffet.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rather tongue-in-cheek ending to his piece complemented the rather shifty looking photograph of the Baroness.
Times, Sunday Times
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A shop worker said: 'He looked incredibly shifty when he came out.
The Sun
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And technically speaking he's letting his head move too much, which makes the actor rather than the character look shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Oooooh,’ commented Alex, in an extremely high pitched squeal, his shifty green eyes darting at Arlyn and Casey in turn.
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He was what in our republic is recognized as a promising fellow, bright, magnetic, shifty, well forward in the neologies of society, business, and politics, a born leader in a small way, and as ambitious as poverty and a brimming self-esteem could make him.
Southern Lights and Shadows
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Turns out they pay an idiotic sum (think thousands of Canadian dollars) to a couple of shifty sailors to take them there.
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This one has a shifty quality: a slight dulling of the focus; a barely perceptible tightening of the lips.
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They're the only ones allowed to look sensible and informed as they bark questions at shifty politicians.
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Like a person hiding behind giant sunglasses, the tower looks shifty and nervous.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to both experts and victims, the shifty world of immigration consultation here often works in conjunction with networks in the refugees' home countries.
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Not only had I failed in my duties, but some other guy - a dopey, shifty guy we both knew - had sent her flowers with a card attached.
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We averted our eyes, from time to time casting a shifty glance in his direction.
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IS ot just me or does Giethner remind anyone else of the weasely, shifty, back-stabbingly corrupt corporate guy in so many movies.
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Not work a shifty deal to remain invisible.
The Sun
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Out in the world, people give you sly glances and look shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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You guys are shifty, and you guys answer quickly with tremendous certainty, and it's the wrong answer.
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He cannot do that now without looking decidedly shifty.
The Sun
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Combine ceiling high sets with powerful rip currents and Rockaway's notorious, shifty, ledgy peaks, and the stage was set for some serious ripping… and brutal wipeouts.
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Sure, it made me seem like a shifty person, but so be it.
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They hooted and hollered mostly for the benefit of the women standing there but I saw it in their eyes, that shifty sideways glance, uncertainty running fast under the surface like critters from a prairie fire.
Beware of Darkness
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'Shifty eyes' now produced a 'cutty' and suggested a smoke, which Sandie and I were thinking was the one thing left to complete our satisfaction.
Border Ghost Stories
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He looks shifty when I refer to it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He'll have to keep close tabs on him, a shifty sort who gets lost behind the big galoots up front.
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Nevertheless, Cameron's performance evoked from The Telegraph the headline, "Cameron attacks 'shifty' Brown over EU treaty", with an equally robust headline from The Daily Express.
This issue is not going to go away
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The stories are set in the 1190s, with King Richard away on crusade and his shifty brother John misgoverning the country.
