shifty

FREQ #24630

a. 变化的 [法] 善于应变的, 多策略的, 诡诈的

发音

其它 /ˈʃɪfti/

词形变化

shiftier 比较级 shiftier shiftiest shiftiest 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Subject to frequent changes in direction.

  2. 2.

    Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.

    1886, George Manville Fenn, This Man’s Wife, Chapter 3, in Littel’s Living Age, Volume 168, No. 2178, 20 March, 1886, p. 761, […] his quick, shifty eyes turned from the manager to the lethal weapons over the chimney, then to the safe, then to the bank, and Mr. Thickens’s back.

  3. 3.

    Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal, or unreliable.

    习语 非正式

    He was a shifty character in a seedy bar, and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.

  4. 4.

    Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 1

devious

近义相关 3

untrustworthy unsteady untrusty

词源

From shift + -y.

来源：wiktionary