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Meanings of shyster in English

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ensarronador

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

ensarronador
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Examples for "pettifogger"
Examples for "pettifogger"
1
You seem to think you are talking to some other pettifogger.
The Virginians
2
He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a-a pettifogger, is it not?
A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
3
Bringing John D. Rockefeller's own personal pettifogger with him too.
Serena
4
Stephen Hawk, the ex-district attorney: boomer, pettifogger, promoter- achartermember of the Gaston wolf-pack
The Grafters
5
The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
Usage of shyster in English
1
Unfortunately, the lawyer he trusted was a shyster of the worst sort.
Ralestone Luck
2
Things aren't done in just that way-not even by shyster lawyers.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
3
Mr. Brann attacked hypocritic preachers, snide politicians, shoddy society people, shyster lawyers.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
4
No sense mincing words with this little shyster from up north.
The appeal
5
Here is where the shrewdness of Mose Kimmel, the shyster lawyer, came in.
The Poisoned Pen
6
A shyster lawyer is going to push hard for reasonable doubt.
Midnight caller
7
There are shyster lawyers here who would not hesitate to advise him wrongly.
The Desired Woman
8
He must have been a frustrated actor before he turned into this shyster.
Getting old is tres dangereux
9
Your manner, sir, and your methods, remind me of a shyster.
The Night-Born
10
The above named book was written by the two shyster lawyers.
The new yorker
11
Oh, probably some shyster lawyer got hold of him and talked him over.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2
12
You left that room knowing Clifford Daniels was an easy mark for this shyster.
Man in the Middle
13
The other was made out to a shyster lawyer and was for fifteen thousand.
From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine
14
Might be a shyster lawyer, or something of the kind.
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on...
15
He is as weak as water,-anignorant, Godless shyster from the backwoods of Illinois.
The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
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Professional politicians, shyster lawyers, political gangsters, flocked to the spoil.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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Shyster through the time