Shifty

Full definition of shifty

Adjective

1. Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes.He was a shifty character in a seedy bar and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
2. Subject to frequent changes in direction.
3. Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
• Charles KingsleyShifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.