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- adverb In a
shifty manner.
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- adverb in a shifty manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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I imagine this guy glancing shiftily around, looking for aliens that might be listening in, before leaning across the table and saying in a hushed, secretive voice …
Sen Ben Nelson (D, NE): ‘I know about holograms.’ | RedState 2010
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He was getting nervous: He took a step back and looked shiftily from side to side.
The Body Ricardo 2010
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Thousands of people stood around shiftily, but their faces lacked the reassuring neutrality of the idle loafers one normally encounters in China.
THE PEOPLE'S ARMY AND THE PEOPLE philip j cunningham 2009
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Thousands of people stood around shiftily, but their faces lacked the reassuring neutrality of the idle loafers one normally encounters in China.
Archive 2009-06-03 philip j cunningham 2009
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Puzzled, Monty smiles shiftily: Well, like I said, you could tell.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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“What do you mean?” she asked shiftily, lowering her hands.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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“What do you mean?” she asked shiftily, lowering her hands.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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“What do you mean?” she asked shiftily, lowering her hands.
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008
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We were confronting aftershocks, seismic activity that continued hourly, shiftily, as we were conducting the rescue effort.
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Once-proud warriors, the descendants of brawny-armed, 14-pints-a-day steelworkers and miners, now slouch shiftily in the ubiquitous Blockbuster stores, waiting to spend their benefits on the violent, degraded products of Hollywood.
Archive 2004-01-11 Laban 2004
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