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shiftily

adverb as in slyly

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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.

Ferguson moistened his lips with his tongue, and, swallowing with an effort, looked shiftily at me and away again.

"I think it was The Sun, in England," he ventured shiftily.

Then he advanced to the battle, swinging one end of the cot wide and shiftily sidestepping.

He did not look me in the face as he delivered this piece of information, but allowed his narrow eyes to drop away shiftily.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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