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Undercover vs Shifty - What's the difference?

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Undercover is a related term of shifty.


As adjectives the difference between undercover and shifty

is that undercover is performed or happening in secret while shifty is having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes .

As a noun undercover

is a person who works.

undercover

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Performed or happening in secret.
  • Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.

    • Synonyms

    * clandestine * See also

    Related terms

    * cloak-and-dagger

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who works .

    • 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.