shiftily
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Stiller, reprising his role as President Trump’s embattled attorney, Michael Cohen, shiftily sidles up to a phone booth and calls Trump, who is sitting in the Oval Office reading Par 4 magazine.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2018
“Laggies” is never more fun than when he calls Megan into his office, shiftily cross-examining her.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2014
"I think it was The Sun, in England," he ventured shiftily.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2010
But Eben, as his glance went shiftily to the face of the clock, was as steady and as cool as one may become under the temporary keying of a repressed and brain-wrecking excitement.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
Now a middle-aged woman, with hair unkempt, and hat awry, maudlin tears in her swollen eyes, and swaying as she held the rail, looked shiftily up into the magistrate's immobile face.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball
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