Shyster

Quick meaning: Shyster is a noun meaning Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.

Meaning

Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To act in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
2. (transitive) To exploit (someone or something) in this way.

Example Sentences

I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• shysters
• shystering
• shystered

Synonyms for shyster

Depending on context, synonyms include pettifogger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pettifogger, shiester, sharpster, hustler, jackleg, scammer.

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