shiftiness

English

Etymology

From shifty +‎ -ness.

Noun

shiftiness (countable and uncountable, plural shiftinesses)

1. (uncountable) The property of being shifty.
   • 1973, Socialist Review, volume 8, page 331:

     Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]

2. (countable, rare) The result or product of being shifty.
   • 1918, Allan Noble Monkhouse, Men and Ghosts, page 73:

     I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.

Translations

the property of being shifty

• Manx: lhoobaght f