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Shyster   /ʃˈaɪstər/   Listen
Shyster

noun
1.
A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods.  Synonym: pettifogger.





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"Shyster" Quotes from Famous Books



... calling me a rascal and a vagabond. I might as well call you a wooden-head, a shyster ...
— The Young Bridge-Tender - or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle • Arthur M. Winfield
... bit of it!" said Jamieson. "A good lawyer keeps his clients out of court. He saves money for them that way, and they run less risk of being beaten. The biggest cases I have never get into court at all. It's only the shyster lawyers, like Isaac Brack, who are always going to court, whether there's any real reason ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm - Or, Bessie King's New Chum • Jane L. Stewart
... County; he disinterred the O'Hara patent of 1760; and then he began to understand that his title to the entire Sagamore Club property was worth the services, on spec, of any first-class Centre Street shyster. ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers


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