1 intelligent and skilled in deceiving others:
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?
