Definition of shyster in English:

shyster

noun ˈʃʌɪstəˈʃaɪstər

informal

A person, especially a lawyer, who uses unscrupulous, fraudulent, or deceptive methods in business.
an ambulance-chasing shyster
as modifier this guy makes used-car salesmen and shyster real-estate agents look good
Example sentencesExamples
- The gun manufacturers, together with other interested parties, should sue the law schools that manufacture the sort of ambulance-chasing shysters who initiate such litigation.
- The defense painted the accuser's mother as a shakedown shyster.
- He's a shyster, they say, ripping off poor uneducated country folk with his mumbo-jumbo, and luring a stream of young girls into his bed.
- He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children.
- Austere narrative depicts a 1950s Peterborough, Ontario swarming with tricksters, murderers, shysters and sodomites.
- And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster.
- I was under no obligation to serve anything to the other party whatsoever, and if they had any complaints then they should take it up with the shyster.
- If there'd been anything to sue and resue and re-resue over, you can bet those 5,000 shysters the campaign flew in would be doing it.
- He declared the amount to be ‘good value for money in a business largely conducted by shysters and sharks.’
- Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square.
- There is no place for chancers, shysters and skelms at sea… no political payback appointments who could literally sink a ship.
- But to a significant degree it keeps out shysters, and those who are in meet minimum acceptable standards.
- Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes.
- Joseph Alessi's playing of the husband and then a shyster lawyer is fine acting.
- Today many of the players earn huge amounts of money, and in place of the local shyster looking for a little glory, you have the multinational capitalist looking for huge profits.
- ‘There were shysters, con men, everybody who would find this business attractive because you print your own money,’ he recalls.
- I put myself out on the line for this guy, and he was nothing but a shyster with a slick lawyer.
- The refugee issue comes down to a shyster pointing out with one hand those people over there who will harm you, while dipping the other hand into the pocket of the xenophobicly distracted.
- So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next?
- Ellis claims that the deceased shyster forgave him several months' rent that Harry now tries to collect.

Origin

Mid 19th century: said to be from Scheuster, the name of a lawyer whose behaviour provoked accusations of ‘scheuster’ practices, perhaps reinforced by German Scheisser 'worthless person'.

An American story goes that there was once an unscrupulous lawyer called Scheuster who gave his name to the shyster, but no record of him has ever been found. It is more likely that German Scheisser ‘worthless person’ formed from Scheisse ‘excrement’, is the word's origin, since it first appeared in New York, home to many German-speaking immigrants, as a term for an unqualified lawyer who preyed on inmates of the notorious prison called the Tombs. Shyster was first recorded in 1843, and soon took on the sense of an unscrupulous lawyer rather than a fake one.

Definition of shyster in US English:

shyster

nounˈʃaɪstərˈSHīstər

informal

A person, especially a lawyer, who uses unscrupulous, fraudulent, or deceptive methods in business.
an ambulance-chasing shyster
as modifier this guy makes used-car salesmen and shyster real-estate agents look good
Example sentencesExamples
- I put myself out on the line for this guy, and he was nothing but a shyster with a slick lawyer.
- I was under no obligation to serve anything to the other party whatsoever, and if they had any complaints then they should take it up with the shyster.
- He's a shyster, they say, ripping off poor uneducated country folk with his mumbo-jumbo, and luring a stream of young girls into his bed.
- But to a significant degree it keeps out shysters, and those who are in meet minimum acceptable standards.
- The defense painted the accuser's mother as a shakedown shyster.
- ‘There were shysters, con men, everybody who would find this business attractive because you print your own money,’ he recalls.
- The refugee issue comes down to a shyster pointing out with one hand those people over there who will harm you, while dipping the other hand into the pocket of the xenophobicly distracted.
- Ellis claims that the deceased shyster forgave him several months' rent that Harry now tries to collect.
- Joseph Alessi's playing of the husband and then a shyster lawyer is fine acting.
- There is no place for chancers, shysters and skelms at sea… no political payback appointments who could literally sink a ship.
- So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next?
- If there'd been anything to sue and resue and re-resue over, you can bet those 5,000 shysters the campaign flew in would be doing it.
- Austere narrative depicts a 1950s Peterborough, Ontario swarming with tricksters, murderers, shysters and sodomites.
- Today many of the players earn huge amounts of money, and in place of the local shyster looking for a little glory, you have the multinational capitalist looking for huge profits.
- And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster.
- The gun manufacturers, together with other interested parties, should sue the law schools that manufacture the sort of ambulance-chasing shysters who initiate such litigation.
- Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes.
- He declared the amount to be ‘good value for money in a business largely conducted by shysters and sharks.’
- Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square.
- He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children.

Origin

Mid 19th century: said to be from Scheuster, the name of a lawyer whose behavior provoked accusations of ‘scheuster’ practices, perhaps reinforced by German Scheisser ‘worthless person’.

单词	shyster
释义	Definition of shyster in English: shyster noun ˈʃʌɪstəˈʃaɪstər informal A person, especially a lawyer, who uses unscrupulous, fraudulent, or deceptive methods in business. an ambulance-chasing shyster as modifier this guy makes used-car salesmen and shyster real-estate agents look good Example sentencesExamples The gun manufacturers, together with other interested parties, should sue the law schools that manufacture the sort of ambulance-chasing shysters who initiate such litigation. The defense painted the accuser's mother as a shakedown shyster. He's a shyster, they say, ripping off poor uneducated country folk with his mumbo-jumbo, and luring a stream of young girls into his bed. He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children. Austere narrative depicts a 1950s Peterborough, Ontario swarming with tricksters, murderers, shysters and sodomites. And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster. I was under no obligation to serve anything to the other party whatsoever, and if they had any complaints then they should take it up with the shyster. If there'd been anything to sue and resue and re-resue over, you can bet those 5,000 shysters the campaign flew in would be doing it. He declared the amount to be ‘good value for money in a business largely conducted by shysters and sharks.’ Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square. There is no place for chancers, shysters and skelms at sea… no political payback appointments who could literally sink a ship. But to a significant degree it keeps out shysters, and those who are in meet minimum acceptable standards. Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes. Joseph Alessi's playing of the husband and then a shyster lawyer is fine acting. Today many of the players earn huge amounts of money, and in place of the local shyster looking for a little glory, you have the multinational capitalist looking for huge profits. ‘There were shysters, con men, everybody who would find this business attractive because you print your own money,’ he recalls. I put myself out on the line for this guy, and he was nothing but a shyster with a slick lawyer. The refugee issue comes down to a shyster pointing out with one hand those people over there who will harm you, while dipping the other hand into the pocket of the xenophobicly distracted. So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next? Ellis claims that the deceased shyster forgave him several months' rent that Harry now tries to collect. Origin Mid 19th century: said to be from Scheuster, the name of a lawyer whose behaviour provoked accusations of ‘scheuster’ practices, perhaps reinforced by German Scheisser 'worthless person'. An American story goes that there was once an unscrupulous lawyer called Scheuster who gave his name to the shyster, but no record of him has ever been found. It is more likely that German Scheisser ‘worthless person’ formed from Scheisse ‘excrement’, is the word's origin, since it first appeared in New York, home to many German-speaking immigrants, as a term for an unqualified lawyer who preyed on inmates of the notorious prison called the Tombs. Shyster was first recorded in 1843, and soon took on the sense of an unscrupulous lawyer rather than a fake one. Definition of shyster in US English: shyster nounˈʃaɪstərˈSHīstər informal A person, especially a lawyer, who uses unscrupulous, fraudulent, or deceptive methods in business. an ambulance-chasing shyster as modifier this guy makes used-car salesmen and shyster real-estate agents look good Example sentencesExamples I put myself out on the line for this guy, and he was nothing but a shyster with a slick lawyer. I was under no obligation to serve anything to the other party whatsoever, and if they had any complaints then they should take it up with the shyster. He's a shyster, they say, ripping off poor uneducated country folk with his mumbo-jumbo, and luring a stream of young girls into his bed. But to a significant degree it keeps out shysters, and those who are in meet minimum acceptable standards. The defense painted the accuser's mother as a shakedown shyster. ‘There were shysters, con men, everybody who would find this business attractive because you print your own money,’ he recalls. The refugee issue comes down to a shyster pointing out with one hand those people over there who will harm you, while dipping the other hand into the pocket of the xenophobicly distracted. Ellis claims that the deceased shyster forgave him several months' rent that Harry now tries to collect. Joseph Alessi's playing of the husband and then a shyster lawyer is fine acting. There is no place for chancers, shysters and skelms at sea… no political payback appointments who could literally sink a ship. So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next? If there'd been anything to sue and resue and re-resue over, you can bet those 5,000 shysters the campaign flew in would be doing it. Austere narrative depicts a 1950s Peterborough, Ontario swarming with tricksters, murderers, shysters and sodomites. Today many of the players earn huge amounts of money, and in place of the local shyster looking for a little glory, you have the multinational capitalist looking for huge profits. And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster. The gun manufacturers, together with other interested parties, should sue the law schools that manufacture the sort of ambulance-chasing shysters who initiate such litigation. Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes. He declared the amount to be ‘good value for money in a business largely conducted by shysters and sharks.’ Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square. He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children. Origin Mid 19th century: said to be from Scheuster, the name of a lawyer whose behavior provoked accusations of ‘scheuster’ practices, perhaps reinforced by German Scheisser ‘worthless person’.
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