Modifying Another Word

• very: The first race started in a very shifty 15 knots coming from the Northwest.

• slightly: And then I asked what he did, and he looked slightly shifty.

• so: So you know why the butler looked so shifty the night of the party.

• quite: The wind did fill in but was testing as it was quite shifty.

• pretty: He has held that job for two different Prime Ministers, which shows he has pretty shifty footwork.

• rather: Quizzed by the Emir, the camel driver related his story confidently enough but he always seemed uneasy and rather shifty.

Modifies a noun

• breeze: Prayers were answered & a light shifty SE breeze slowly built all day.

• wind: More light, shifty winds are forecast for next week.

• eye: He did not have shifty eyes or wear a dirty rain mac.

• character: A Taxi stuck in traffic had two shifty characters in the back.

• condition: The NE wind was blowing along the length of the lake allowing a good long beat into the shifty conditions for all races.

• force: The 15 knots of breeze predicted never filled in - instead the fleet raced in a shifty force 2-3.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Someone's been hanging around the village, looking shifty.

• become: The wind picked up slightly for the start of race two, only to progressively drop and become more shifty as the race developed.