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Shiftiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being shifty. uncountable

    "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. 2
    the quality of being changeable in direction wordnet
  3. 3
    The result or product of being shifty. countable, rare

    "I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me."

  4. 4
    the quality of being a slippery rascal wordnet

Etymology

From shifty + -ness.

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