Ang kahulugan ng diksyunaryo ng salitang "shifty" ay hindi tapat, umiiwas o kahina-hinala, kadalasang nailalarawan ng kawalan ng pagiging mapagkakatiwalaan o katatagan. Maaari rin itong tumukoy sa isang bagay na patuloy na nagbabago o hindi matatag.
Shifty characters snaked through the crowd, collecting bets.
The man before him, who had seemed shifty and shiftless, now exuded natural authority.
All at once that shifty look came into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to know so well.
It showed in the shifty movement of her eyes and the increased ruddiness in her cheeks.
