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Shyster

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Slang An unethical, unscrupulous practitioner, especially of law.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who does business trickily; a person without professional honor: used chiefly of Iawyers: as, pettifoggers and shysters.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

offender wrongdoer

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

meister

Same Context

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