shiftiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shiftiness
Noun
  • The songs typically crop up in the final act of an episode as the tensions (and treacheries) mount.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
  • After a season of treachery and deception, the winner or winners of The Traitors UK Season 3 have been revealed.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That would have been a stupid question just about anywhere else, but the exhibition was by Laura Owens, a painter with a penchant for trickery, and the venue was Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, whose press release for Owens’s latest outing offered little in the way of explanation.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Astounding transformations, in which one character takes on the appearance of another, will leave you wondering how the trickery was pulled off.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • With a bit of guidance, navigating between the classic go-to’s and the newer dining options are scattered throughout the properties can lead to incredible culinary discoveries, plenty of popping champagne bottles and even a dash of historical subterfuge.
    Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • This sequence introduces The Agency as a maze of contradictory nationalist motivations, paranoia-inducing surveillance, and prevalent subterfuge — and, in its hidden center, a love story.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For Mirren, the cunning and cruelty of Whitfield is a timely example of power corrupting absolutely.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Gilded by privilege and cunning, Glinda is a popular young woman who desires to wield magic.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Shiftiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiftiness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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