Definitions for shysters

shysters shy·ster

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

Shysters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in shysters (ehrsssty).

Definitions for shysters

noun

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

Origin of shysters

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for shysters
Scrable

13

Words with friends

11

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