[
UK
/ʃˈaɪstɐ/
]
[ US /ˈʃaɪstɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃaɪstɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
How To Use shyster In A Sentence
- This wasn't an accidental outburst: he went on to repeat the word "shyster" twice more. F&C falls to a very American coup. Now what?
- It was like a set from an American B-movie about a lone peewee shyster, save for the parrot in a cage. OUTCAST
- But to a significant degree it keeps out shysters, and those who are in meet minimum acceptable standards.
- I put myself out on the line for this guy, and he was nothing but a shyster with a slick lawyer.
- He was going to be the one true "seer" -- poke fun at the soft underbelly of politics, keeping us smiling and "in the know" -- the "shysters" wouldn't stand a chance with Jon Stewart on guard! Mike Hegedus: Jon, You're Wrong. It is a Game, and You're a Player!
- Well, the states still have equal suffrage in the Senate, but this kind of what I call shyster lawyerism has been used to permit the federal government to overrun the Constitutional bounds on its powers. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Sotomayor Vote:
- And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster.
- He had begun his career as an "ambulance chaser," had risen later to the dignity of a police court lawyer, and now was of the type that might be called, for want of a better name, a high class "shyster" -- unscrupulous, sharp, cunning. The Ear in the Wall
- The creepiest is a former state senator nicknamed the Shyster, who talks about his pedophilia with unnerving sangfroid. Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
- `I've still gotta question Tettlinger when his shyster gets here. FOOLS GOLD