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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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