Usually means: Characterized by cunning or deceitfulness.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word SHIFTY:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. shifty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shifty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shifty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shifty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shifty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shifty, shifty: Wordnik
  7. shifty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shifty: Wiktionary
  9. shifty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shifty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shifty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shifty: Dictionary.com
  13. shifty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shifty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shifty (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shifty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shifty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shifty: Rhymezone
  19. Shifty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shifty: Free Dictionary
  21. shifty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. shifty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shifty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shifty: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shifty, shifty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Shifty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shiftier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shifty)

adjective:  Subject to frequent changes in direction.
adjective:  (of a person's eyes) Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.
adjective:  Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal, or unreliable.
adjective:  Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.

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