To all thoseRay 'shifty' saying: "Let the consumer decide". From Wordnik.com. [Has Blu-ray won the HD format war? | Sync Blog] Reference
Lets face it being a dealer is a kind of shifty profession. From Wordnik.com. [New Car] Reference
And he looked kind of shifty when I turned up with my Other Half, Andy, in tow. From Wordnik.com. [All Roads Lead To ...] Reference
"It was light and shifty, which is something we have encountered before here. From Wordnik.com. [YBW News] Reference
He stood looking at me and was acting a bit, "shifty" which I put down to the wind. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This is the kind of shifty, shady behavior that anyone with common sense is naturally weary of. From Wordnik.com. Reference
His face was coarse and hard, his eyes, as he peered about in search of her, were "shifty," she assured herself. From Wordnik.com. [In Old Kentucky] Reference
The first thing I knows he comes over to me, his jaw set firmer'n I ever see it shut before, and a kind of shifty look in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy] Reference
There was something furtive and shifty about George. From Wordnik.com. [The Brand of Silence A Detective Story] Reference
He's always looking for work; kind of a shifty fella. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Empson: The Atmosphere is Shrinking and Scientists are Baffled] Reference
He must have a shifty pony well trained to riding work. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
Warren was shifty with Eva about this affair, and others. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Conboy looked at him with quick flashing of his shifty eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
But if all else fails, the shifty-eye thing might not be a bad start. From Wordnik.com. [When Is a Brick Not a Brick?] Reference
He is seen as a visionary by some, but as a shifty diplomat by others. From Wordnik.com. [Can Peace Survive?] Reference
He becomes shifty and suspicious and will not look you squarely in the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
This man at once attracted me by his shifty eyes and unhealthy red complexion. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
The man micht be a carven image, and Leevie no better nor a shifty in the pook. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
His face was brown as a smack's sail, and his eyes red and shifty as a ferret's. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
The true shortfalls are probably worse, because shifty accounting can mask a loss. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, No--More Pension Blues] Reference
The shifty eyes and full-lipped mouth of the man filled me with a sudden loathing. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Where nature is so shifty in her ways, it requires keen penetration to discover her ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
But, remember, the short supply of firewood provides an opportunity for shifty suppliers. From Wordnik.com. [Firewood and wood pellets become a hot commodity] Reference
I have spoken of his gaze as "somewhat shifty," yet am not altogether sure that in that term. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
The man had shifty eyes, and Joe always distrusted men who could not look him straight in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
“I must have been sleep-walking,” Cinda lied, thankful for the darkness that hid her shifty eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Shoe] Reference
A pair of shifty eyes were fixed fearfully on Foyle, and the man murmured something in a guttural tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Haven't we seen these stereotypical wild-eyed guerrillas and shifty-eyed corporate types a hundred times before?. From Wordnik.com. [Hostage Heat] Reference
The shifty dishonest factor, and the indolent unrighteous judge of subsequent parables, occur as conspicuous examples. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Starr's report does a fairly effective job of cutting through the president's flat-out denials and shifty equivocations. From Wordnik.com. [How Strong Is Starr's Case?] Reference
The Optimates were feeble and shifty, had shewn ingratitude to Cicero himself, and had openly favoured his enemy Clodius. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
I noticed his eyes particularly -- they were rather shifty -- and he was very, very persistent in getting to the dining room. From Wordnik.com. [The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt] Reference
No more shoes off at the airport, no more sweaty palms when a Middle Eastern-looking man slouches past us, shifty-eyed, in the mall. From Wordnik.com. [The Perimeter] Reference
A few gray outriders reconnoitred over the horizon line and sent scurrying to their hovels those who looked up at them from shifty eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
See again, I have now on my hands a shifty, mean fellow, though of equestrian rank, called Catienus: even he is going to be smoothed down. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
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