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Meaning of Shiftiness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The property of being shifty.
    uncountable
  2. The result or product of being shifty.
    countable, rare

Equivalents

العربية الخداع

Examples

“Mr. Henderson's chief trouble⟳ seems to be that he cannot forget⟳ his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]”
“I had the grace or humility sometimes to see⟳ myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help⟳ to steady me.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Shifting shifting baseline syndrome shifting cultivation shifting executory interest shifting spanner shiftingness

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