Sentence example with the word 'shiftiness'

shiftiness

Definition n. the quality of being a slippery rascal

Last update: June 27, 2015


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Cromwell had exhausted every expedient for arriving at an arrangement with the king by which the royal authority might be preserved, and the repeated perfidy and inexhaustible shiftiness of Charles had proved the hopelessness of such attempts.   [Please select]

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Evil living and sordid passions had coarsened his features, produced bagginess under the eyes and a shiftiness of glance.   [Please select]

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Like Long Jim, though less outspoken, he had been troubled by the intrigue, the shiftiness, and the false seeming of New Orleans, and now his spirit replied to the battle of the elements.   [Please select]

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