shiftiness noun2 •The property of being shifty.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[…] — 1973 •(rare) The result or product of being shifty.I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me. — 1918 formsshiftinesses
