Usually means: Evasive, unpredictable movement or behavior.
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  1. shiftiness: Merriam-Webster
  2. shiftiness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shiftiness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shiftiness: Vocabulary.com
  5. shiftiness: Wordnik
  6. shiftiness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shiftiness: Wiktionary
  8. shiftiness: Dictionary.com
  9. Shiftiness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. shiftiness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. shiftiness: Rhymezone
  12. Shiftiness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. shiftiness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shiftiness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. shiftiness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shiftiness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shiftiness)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The property of being shifty.
▸ noun:  (countable, rare) The result or product of being shifty.

Similar:
slipperiness, trickiness, rascality, shiftyness, makeshiftiness, shiftlessness, shiftability, shiftingness, shiftfulness, lability, more...

Opposite:
honesty, trustworthiness, reliability

Types:
shifty, sly, slippery, cunning, guileful, foxy, roguish, artful, tricky, more...

Adjectives:
certain, such, extreme, moral, general, usual, political, only, mysterious, canny, more

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Similar:
slipperiness, trickiness, rascality, shiftyness, makeshiftiness, shiftlessness, shiftability, shiftingness, shiftfulness, lability, more...

Opposite:
honesty, trustworthiness, reliability

Types:
shifty, sly, slippery, cunning, guileful, foxy, roguish, artful, tricky, more...

Adjectives:
certain, such, extreme, moral, general, usual, political, only, mysterious, canny, more



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