shiftiness

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Noun
  • Welcome back for another season full of [Alan Cumming voice] deception, backstabbing and treachery!
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Yet Milady and her treachery have for nearly 200 years always stood out.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Featuring a brand new cast of reality television’s best and most conniving, the U.S. version of Peacock’s hit game show returns on January 9 for more challenges, trickery, and impeccable outfits from host Cumming.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Background/foreground blur and other in-camera trickery are used to great effect.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In an era rife with conspiracy theories and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps our imagining?
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The story that follows includes intense political subterfuge, villainous monologues, and heart-wrenching character deaths.
    Courtney Mifsud Intreglia, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • There’s an unapologetic cunning at the heart of this series, and a mercurial spirit that’s as slippery as blood on an Italian marble floor.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Just as Nordlinger shows that the peacemakers and Nobel laureates whose work holds up best are those who brought specific conflicts to an end, the organizations in Bob's account that get the most done are those that pursue limited goals with cunning and patience.
    Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2012
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“Shiftiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shiftiness. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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