shiftiness
English
Etymology
From shifty + -ness
Noun
shiftiness (countable and uncountable, plural shiftinesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being shifty.
- 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
- 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 […]
- 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being shifty.
Translations
the property of being shifty
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