shiftily

Example Sentences

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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 Stahr, Paul

In and out of the hive long black robber bees smeared with honey fly timidly and shiftily.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf