This week’s theme
Words with opposite or contradictory meanings

This week’s words
farouche
dinky
shifty
endsville
presently

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(SHIF-tee)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Evasive; untrustworthy.
2. Changing directions frequently.
3. Resourceful: able to accomplish what needs done.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English sciftan (to arrange or divide). Earliest documented use: 1570.

USAGE:

“He was shifty and sly -- there was something very distasteful and loathsome about him.”
Mari Emm; A Rumour From The Firehouse; AuthorHouse; 2015.

“The smart, shifty forward showed he could excel at the pro game.”
Jason Bell; Just Ducky; Winnipeg Free Press (Canada); Oct 13, 2021.

See more usage examples of shifty in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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