Shyster

//ˈʃaɪs.tɚ//

Synonyms for "shyster" (61 found)

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Closest matches (13)

Noun(1 words)
pettifogger

Strong matches (18)

Related words (30)

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More general

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Synonyms

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capable of

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derived

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is a

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related to

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Translations

14 translations across 8 languages.

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Albanian

2 entries
  • tinëzar noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)
  • tinëzare noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • мошеник noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)
  • шарлатанин noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

French

2 entries
  • avocaillon noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)
  • chicaneur noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

Galician

1 entries
  • avogado das silveiras noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

German

3 entries
  • Gauner noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)
  • Rechtsverdreher noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)
  • Winkeladvokat noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

Greek

1 entries
  • δικολάβος noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

Russian

2 entries
  • мерзавец noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)
  • мерзавка noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

Swedish

1 entries
  • brännvinsadvokat noun (someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way)

Sample sentences

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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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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