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shyster

noun as in unscrupulous lawyer; swindler

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

One of the latest biographies of Lincoln credits him with many of the artifices of the "shyster."

With all that he was approaching forty a shyster lawyer, living on the blackmail he shared with the police.

He was in no humor to be bluffed by a pompous shyster lawyer.

At each stage we spoke dutifully of the scene and its associations; I sketched, the Shyster spouted poetry and copied epitaphs.

Two trifles, indeed, completed though they scarcely changed my conception of the Shyster.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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