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countable and uncountable, plural shiftinesses
(uncountable) The property of being shifty. quotations examples
Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]
1973, Socialist Review, volume 8, page 331
(countable, rare) The result or product of being shifty. quotations
I had the grace or humility sometimes to see myself as a mass of shiftinesses; a few dogmas might help to steady me.
1918, Allan Noble Monkhouse, Men and Ghosts, page 73