Synonyms for shyster

Grammar : Noun

Spell : shahy-ster

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃaɪ stər

Définition of shyster

Origin : "unscrupulous lawyer," 1843, U.S. slang, probably altered from German Scheisser "incompetent worthless person," from Scheisse "shit" (n.), from Old High German skizzan "to defecate" (see shit (v.)).

noun unscrupulous lawyer; swindler

Example sentences :

Shyster is very probably German also; Thornton has traced it back to the 50's.
Extract from : « The American Language » by Henry L. Mencken

A lawyer, doing a thing of this character, is denominated a 518 shyster.
Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

He performs religious duties on Sunday and is a shyster on Monday.
Extract from : « Studies in the Epistle of James » by A. T. Robertson

"I guess he's a shyster by nature, that fellow," interposed Jowett.
Extract from : « The World For Sale, Complete » by Gilbert Parker

To make an application of all this, let us not be too hard on the quack and the shyster.
Extract from : « Quacks and Grafters » by Unknown

Did you ever know a shyster to pad his library with Congressional reports?
Extract from : « Quacks and Grafters » by Unknown

The other was made out to a shyster lawyer and was for fifteen thousand.
Extract from : « From the Bottom Up » by Alexander Irvine

He is as weak as water,—an ignorant, Godless shyster from the backwoods of Illinois.
Extract from : « The Lions of the Lord » by Harry Leon Wilson

Unfortunately, the lawyer he trusted was a shyster of the worst sort.
Extract from : « Ralestone Luck » by Andre Norton

The shyster played square and seemed so honest that they intrusted him with a check on a bank in Quebec.
Extract from : « Dreamy Hollow » by Sumner Charles Britton

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