shifty Betydning & definition

Eksempler på shifty

• Her heroes are always fair of form and strong in jaw line, while her villains are correspondingly flabby and shifty-eyed.

• The system is highly organized, but the text/body itself, because of its nature as text, remains a shifty haze of signs.

• Current models of the creative process in cultural theory remain either silent or shifty about this sort of question.

• Adjectives in -y/-ie can also frequently be metaphorical (lippy, shifty) and occasionally truncated (bolshie).

• Does history move against a ground of some kind, the also shifty ground of 'meaning,' if not the supposedly stabler ground of 'nature'?

• But many shifty crooks and nasty people are involved in the worldwide trade in ivory.

• Cameras can make the phoney look truthful, and the truthful shifty.

• Will we have the chance for such debates, or will we continue to have such shifty debates when we do not discuss the fundamental issues?