Crossword clues for shyster
shyster
- Not one to trust
- Pettifogger
- Cheat
- Business cheat
- A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
- He pettifogs
- Ambulance-chaser, e.g.
- Mouthpiece of a sort
- He practices pettifoggery
- Dodgy lawyer has uneasy rest after retiring
- A fling with almost entirely inflexible, unscrupulous lawyer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shyster \Shy"ster\, n. [Perh. from G. scheisse excrement.] A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way. [Slang, U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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.)).
Wiktionary
n. Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
WordNet
n. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods [syn: pettifogger]
Wikipedia
Shyster is a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law, sometimes also politics or business.
A shyster is generally a charlatan, a person practising quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money or advantage by pretense.
Shyster may also refer to:
- Sylvester Shyster, a fictional villain & dictator in the Mickey Mouse universe
- SS-3 Shyster, the NATO name for the Soviet R-5 missile during the Cold War
- SHYSTER, a legal expert system
- Shyster, an enemy in Super Mario RPG, serving as Mack's bodyguard and Smithy's basic servants
- It is often applied as a derogatory term for a Hyster Fork Truck.
SHYSTER is a legal expert system developed at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1993. It was written as the doctoral dissertation of James Popple under the supervision of Robin Stanton, Roger Clarke, Peter Drahos, and Malcolm Newey. A full technical report of the expert system, and a book further detailing its development and testing have also been published.
SHYSTER emphasises its pragmatic approach, and posits that a legal expert system need not be based upon a complex model of legal reasoning in order to produce useful advice. Although SHYSTER attempts to model the way in which lawyers argue with cases, it does not attempt to model the way in which lawyers decide which cases to use in those arguments. SHYSTER is of a general design, permitting its operation in different legal domains. It was designed to provide advice in areas of case law that have been specified by a legal expert using a bespoke specification language. Its knowledge of the law is acquired, and represented, as information about cases. It produces its advice by examining, and arguing about, the similarities and differences between cases. It derives its name from Shyster: a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
Usage examples of "shyster".
The plot thickens: Gorgeous Tiffany Ports, who has lately been the favorite plaything of Richard Hickock, was seen today tte-a-tte with shyster shamus Stone Barrington, over martinis at the Oak Bar.
Shyster had been given the job of clearing out Tsuris, a nearby planet of considerable mystery.
She expected to find unkept quarters, dirty instruments and the mumbo-jumbo paraphernalia of the shyster M.
Everett Everett Barr, an ex-carnival swindler and now a shyster lawyer, formerly employed Sally Surett in his office.
With the class trade we have plenty of shysters come snooping round for easy money off the shovers and taximen.
Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.
Shyster lawyers who are partners in a bail-bond racket on the side (only about two per cent of all forfeited bail bonds are ever collected).
Now that he was barred from practicing law before Zarathustran courts, he had chosen The Honorable Eustis Throckmorton as his own personal shyster.
I don't want to see these little shysters with goatees and frock coats, like your friend Boris.
It seemed that there were as many loopholes in biblical doctrine as there were in a shyster lawyer's purchase agreement.
The shyster might not have been stony broke, but he surely must have been sorry he had ever hooked up to this combination when he died of an apparent heart attack while strolling the grounds this August past.
The hall outside the courtrooms was perpetually packed with wheeler-dealers, shysters, losers, the frightened, the bewildered.