English Dictionary

shifty

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃɪfti/

形容詞

人の目

Subject to frequent changes in direction. / (of a person's eyes) Moving from one object to another, not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.

日本語の意味

頻繁に方向が変わる、定まらない / （人の目が）一点を見ずにあちこちに移動する、チラチラしている

The shifty wind forced the sailors to constantly adjust the sails.

方向が頻繁に変わる風のせいで、船乗りたちは帆を絶えず調整しなければならなかった。

意味（1）

Subject to frequent changes in direction.

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

意味（2）

(of a person's eyes) Moving from one object to another, not looking directly and steadily at the person with whom one is speaking.

[…] 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.

意味（3）

Having the appearance of being dishonest, criminal or unreliable.

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

意味（4）

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.

shiftier （ comparative ）

shiftiest （ superlative ）