Definitions for shyster

shyster shy·ster

Spelling: [shahy-ster]
IPA: /ˈʃaɪ stər/

Shyster is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in shyster (ehrssty).

Definitions for shyster

noun

  1. a lawyer who uses unprofessional or questionable methods.
  2. a person who gets along by petty, sharp practices.

Origin of shyster

1835-45, Americanism; probably German Scheisser, equivalent to scheiss(en) to shit + -er -er1; final -ser conformed to Examples for shyster

The other was made out to a shyster lawyer and was for fifteen thousand.

On her application for asylum she listened to shyster legal counsel.

Unfortunately, the lawyer he trusted was a shyster of the worst sort.

He is as weak as water,—an ignorant, Godless shyster from the backwoods of Illinois.

Did you ever know a shyster to pad his library with Congressional reports?

"I guess he's a shyster by nature, that fellow," interposed Jowett.

shyster is very probably German also; Thornton has traced it back to the 50's.

To make an application of all this, let us not be too hard on the quack and the shyster.

He performs religious duties on Sunday and is a shyster on Monday.

A lawyer, doing a thing of this character, is denominated a 518 shyster.

Word Value for shyster
Scrable

13

Words with friends

11

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