shifty

shifty englannista suomeksi

1. epäluotettavan oloinen, epäluotettava

2. vaihteleva

1. epäluotettavan oloinen">epäluotettavan oloinen

shifty englanniksi

1. Subject to frequent changes in direction.

2. (quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Norton|section=Part 2, Chapter 3, p. 145|url=https://archive.org/stream/ultimathule00rich

3. (quote-journal)|text=The Helfrich plan is simple and direct, based upon a minute knowledge of Indies waters: to strike & strike again & again at the Japanese supply lines. For most of his naval life, Java-born Admiral Helfrich has done nothing but study war with the Japanese. His Navy was designed for shifty, aggressive action within the narrow East Indian waters. In the first 54 days of war his ships and cooperating Dutch planes sank 54 Japanese vessels. "Ship-a-day Helfrich," the Dutch soon called him. His ideas dominated the enlarging and equipping of Java's main naval base at Surabaya, where heavy cruisers (but not battleships) can be fueled and repaired. For the Helfrich plan to succeed, Surabaya must be held.

4. {{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Guy Vanderhaeghe|title=The Last Crossing|location=New York|publisher=Grove|chapter=17|page=190|url=https://archive.org/details/lastcrossing00guyv

5. Moving from one object to another; not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.

6. 1886, (w), ''This Man’s Wife'', Chapter 3, in ''(w)'', Volume 168, No. 2178, 20(nbs)March, 1886, p.(nbs)761,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008546832

(..) his quick, shifty eyes turned from the manager to the lethal weapons over the chimney, then to the safe, then to the bank, and Mr. Thickens’s back.

7. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Cassell|year_published=1928|page=149|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.510011

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1993|author=Vikram Seth|title=A Suitable Boy|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown|section=Chapter 1.4, p. 10|url=https://archive.org/details/suitableboy00vikr

9. Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal{{, or unreliable.

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10. {{quote-text|en|year=1999|author=J. M. Coetzee|title=Disgrace|url=https://archive.org/details/disgrace00coet|chapter=23|page=208|publisher=Viking|location=New York

11. (cap); full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.(w), ''Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English'', London: Henry G. Bohn, Volume 2, p.(nbs)848: “Cunning; artful” (''(w) Yorkshire'').https://archive.org/details/dictionaryobsol03wriggoog

12. {{quote-text|en|year=1857|author=Charles Kingsley|title=Two Years Ago|volume=1|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001024024|chapter=1|page=34|publisher=Macmillan|location=Cambridge