Shifty vs Shitty - What's the difference?
shifty | shitty |
Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes .
Subject to frequent changes in direction.
* 1971 , Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule (page 121)
Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
* Charles Kingsley
(vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.
* 1988 November, Byron Coley, Underground'', '' ,
* 2006 , , Nirvana: The True Story , 2009,
* 2011 , Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires ,
(US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
(British, Australia, NZ, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.
(vulgar) Covered in crap (faeces/feces).
As adjectives the difference between shifty and shitty
is that shifty is having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes while shitty is (vulgar|colloquial) very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.shifty
English
Adjective
(er)- He was a shifty character in a seedy bar and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
- Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand. But it was no good: she didn't care.
- (Wright)
- Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.
shitty
English
Adjective
(er)- The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.
- I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.
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- It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.
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- The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.
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- Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.
- Don't get shitty at me!