What's the difference between shifty and shinty?

Shifty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucas’s surname is Madikane ; ultra-conservative Brian was shifty around the couple.
  • (2) Across town via Royston Vasey, Steve Pemberton is Kevin Weatherill, a man colluding with some shifty types to kidnap his boss's daughter.
  • (3) There was Nick Griffin himself, described by my self-selected group of Twitter friends as: "incoherent", "shifty", an "arse" and more.
  • (4) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
  • (5) The war's growing unpopularity meant there was less tolerance for shifty allies like Karzai perceived to have a foot in both camps.
  • (6) This suggests that the "shifty" tRNAs proposed by Jacks et al.
  • (7) This overlap region includes a "shifty" heptanucleotide, followed by a highly structured region that may contain a pseudoknot.
  • (8) In the case of one shifty sequence, frameshifting promoted by lysyl-tRNA limitation occurs at the sequence AAG C and is due to rightward movement of the ribosome so as to read the AGC triplet overlapping the hungry codon from the right.
  • (9) Another recent critics' favourite which might not have got a look-in elsewhere is Eran Creevy's Shifty, a fusion of kitchen-sink drama and urban crime thriller.
  • (10) One of the parallels between August 2007 and August 2011 is the shiftiness of those running the show, a sense that they are not letting on all they know for fear of creating more panic.
  • (11) 12.37pm: The Guardian's deputy editor, Ian Katz , has just tweeted: Cameron looking staggeringly shifty about extent to which he discussed Coulson appointment with Rebekah Brooks #Leveson — ian katz (@iankatz1000) June 14, 2012 12.39pm: Cameron says he asked Coulson about phone hacking in a face-to-face meeting in the Norman Shaw building in Westminster, at which he sought assurances from Coulson.
  • (12) The presence of a "shifty" heptanucleotide sequence in this region and a downstream RNA pseudoknot structure indicate that ORF1b is probably expressed by ribosomal frameshifting.
  • (13) Self-regarding, clever, shifty Boris must be counted among those many voters who have said since Friday: “I only voted leave because I assumed remain would win.” He deserves to be made to sweep up the glass after the Brexit party, but it’s not his style.
  • (14) He tries to look and sound sincere, and perhaps he is; but he comes across all the same as rather nervous and shifty.
  • (15) In almost all cases a stable hairpin was predicted four to nine nucleotides downstream of the shifty heptanucleotide.
  • (16) Dare I ask the bookseller (who has probably recognised the shifty look in my eyes) if not, why not?
  • (17) They still loved him as they never loved Tony Blair, who also got stuck with the shifty label.
  • (18) This is not a strong, confident government, it is a shifty, grubby regime, tin-eared to the views of our friends and brainwashed by the Ukip world view.
  • (19) He certainly came across as an uninspiring and slightly shifty bureaucrat, concerned more about his ambitions than anything else – but, then again, that’s pretty much the persona with which we’re familiar from his parliamentary career.
  • (20) The lavender, reclining on a chaise longue is looking shifty and smoking a cigarette.

Shinty


Definition:

  • (n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shinty is an ancient game, related to hurling and hockey, that is played in the Highlands of Scotland.
  • (2) A survey of shinty injuries was carried out during one season.

Words possibly related to "shifty"

Words possibly related to "shinty"