shiftiness

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Definition of shiftiness

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)The property of being shifty.
    “Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)The property of being shifty.
    “Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]”
  2. (countable, rare)The result or product of being shifty.
    “I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.”

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Etymology

From shifty + -ness.

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