Marked or characterized by, partaking or suggestive of, sneaking; hence, mean, contemptible.

Of persons: shifty, roguish. Obsolete.

Slippery; figurative shifty, untrustworthy.

Skulking, furtive; mean, cheap, contemptible; poor, obsequious.

Of persons: Like or resembling a sneak; mean, paltry, sneaking.