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/ˈʃaɪs.tə(ɹ)/ · noun
Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics..
True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
The network canceled—nonco-operation their legal shysters said. Suing me, for, for ten million clams, damages to sponsors, agencies. Internal Revenue-Uncle Whiskers says I owe them a mint.
I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
Use shyster when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shyster means Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics..
Common synonyms include pettifogger.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
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