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Definition of Shiftier
1. shifty [adj] - See also: shifty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shiftier
Literary usage of Shiftier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Horace Binney: With Selections from His Letters by Charles Chauncey Binney (1903)
"Some shots were fired from houses, a youth named shiftier was killed, and several
men wounded. In revenge an attack was made on a Roman Catholic school ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... melody in the Champ-de-Mars: many a Patriot shiftier, truer none. Lafayette
himself is looking altogether dubious; in place of beating the Austrians, ..."
3. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"Dr. Middleton was attacked by three angry bees. They made him say Yes and No
alternately so many times that he had to admit in men a shiftier ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"Many and bit- that both these pillars rest on shiftier as have been the sarcasms
and ing foundations. The philosophical denunciations against medical ..."
5. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by William Cushing (1885)
"Robert shiftier. The domestic commentary on the whole Word of God. L. 1854.
Clergyman of the Church of England, A. Rev. Benjamin Dawson, LL. ..."
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