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Stealthy vs Shifty - What's the difference?

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Stealthy is a related term of shifty.


As adjectives the difference between stealthy and shifty

is that stealthy is characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy while shifty is having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes .

stealthy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.

    • Synonyms

    * sneaking * undercover * concealed * See also

    Derived terms

    * stealthiness

    shifty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes .
    • He was a shifty character in a seedy bar and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
  • Subject to frequent changes in direction.
  • * 1971 , Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule (page 121)
    • Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand. But it was no good: she didn't care.
  • Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
    • (Wright)
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.