shiftiness

He ducked his head and looked around with paranoid shiftiness.

The reputation for shiftiness stuck, and carried over to politics.

He was a moral, religious man, with great force of character, to whom half measures and shiftiness were foreign.

But there was weakness about his mouth, a shiftiness in his eyes.

He had made some inner resolve to overcome his natural shiftiness, and stare me down.

What makes him difficult to defend is his combination of speed and shiftiness - something the Giants believe runs in the family.

Persian courtesy, never to meet one's stare direct: shiftiness, one might think it.

That curious shiftiness made him seem like an invisible man, as if she could not see him at all.

His only fault was a shiftiness of gaze - a habit which he seemed anxious to overcome.

"For a big guy, he has some shiftiness.

An odd evasiveness, almost shiftiness, appeared in Wally's eyes and demeanor.

Some guy who looked like any other desk-jockey, except for a certain petulance around the mouth and a shiftiness about the eyes.

I could not detect in him any of the shiftiness that Marion Shaw had described.

But Clinton needed no lessons in shiftiness.

But there was no shyness or shiftiness about Berks's fighting.

Like a shiftiness in the eyes, an unwillingness to make eye contact, I just had the sense of betrayal in the air.

Follow-up interview recommended-gives nothing unless asked directly, some eye and body language suggests shiftiness.

Only the slight shiftiness of his eyes betrayed the manner of a crook.

She watched his face like a hawk, but instead of shiftiness, all she registered was sadness.

He looked up at me out of the corners of his eyes, greed glimmering through the shiftiness.

At the same time, Hall's shiftiness and speed aid him on punts, where open-field ability is essential.

They are more likely to equate transience with arrested development or a shiftiness a step away from check-kiting schemes.

He drew the eye not just with his shiftiness during plays, but with his stature when standing among teammates.

On that final drive, Henry ran with the power of a tank and the shiftiness of a sports car - as he had done all day.