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shifty

C1 adj

shifty /ˈʃɪfti/ nghĩa là hay thay đổi, không ổn định

Các nghĩa

  1. hay thay đổi, không ổn định

    Subject to frequent changes in direction.

    Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand.

    The Kelsos crowding their horses up against the wagon, bumping it, making things shake inside: everything going shifty, unsteady.

  2. liếc ngang liếc dọc, không nhìn thẳng

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

    His tinted glasses were not really opaque, but of a blue kind common enough, nor were the eyes behind them shifty, but regarded me steadily.

    He was thin, unsure of himself, sweet-natured and shifty-eyed; and he was Lata’s favourite.

  3. gian xảo, đáng ngờ

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

    idiomatic · informal

    He was a shifty character in a seedy bar, and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.

    ‘I don’t trust him,’ he goes on. ‘He is shifty. He is like a jackal sniffing around, looking for mischief. […]’

  4. tháo vát, xoay xở giỏi

    Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.

    Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

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