shiftily

IPA: ʃˈɪftʌɫi

Examples of "shiftily" in Sentences

“What do you mean?” she asked shiftily, lowering her hands.
Puzzled, Monty smiles shiftily: Well, like I said, you could tell.
He was getting nervous: He took a step back and looked shiftily from side to side.
We were confronting aftershocks, seismic activity that continued hourly, shiftily, as we were conducting the rescue effort.
Thousands of people stood around shiftily, but their faces lacked the reassuring neutrality of the idle loafers one normally encounters in China.
I imagine this guy glancing shiftily around, looking for aliens that might be listening in, before leaning across the table and saying in a hushed, secretive voice …
Once-proud warriors, the descendants of brawny-armed, 14-pints-a-day steelworkers and miners, now slouch shiftily in the ubiquitous Blockbuster stores, waiting to spend their benefits on the violent, degraded products of Hollywood.