shiftiness
nounEtymology From shifty + -ness.
1
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, Socialist Review, volume 8, page 331:
2
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, Allan Noble Monkhouse, Men and Ghosts, page 73: