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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



... not worth the trouble to study law seriously; and he imagined moreover that to study so many routine conceptions, which may be false, such as the conception of the soul, of equity, of responsibility, etc., would bring him to a shyster lawyer's vulgar and affected idea of life. To counteract this tendency he devoted himself to studying zoology at the University, and the next year he took a course ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja


Words linked to "Shyster" :   offender, wrongdoer


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