| 单词 | shifty-eyed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshifty-eyed b. Of a person's attributes, actions, etc. Also in combinations, as shifty-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] > of actions, words, etc. sly1387 sinister?1455 slippery1579 shuffling1644 evasorious1687 evasive1744 shiftya1863 a1863 W. M. Thackeray Denis Duval ii, in Cornhill Mag. (1864) Mar. 264 A handsome, tall, sallow-faced man, with a shifty eye. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. vi. 223 I scorn your shifty evasions. 1884 American 7 213 His political methods have been shifty and not straightforward. 1922 H. Jenkins John Dene of Toronto i. 11 A shifty-eyed little man. 1977 M. Babson Lord Mayor of Death xiv. 92 He must have looked a right shifty-eyed bastard. < as lemmas |
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