Thesaurus / shyster

shyster

How to use shyster in a sentence

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.

MAX FARGUSOWEN JOHNSON

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.

Mr. Denman heard my inquiries with discomposure, but informed me the shyster was already gone.

Of the shyster, it is only known (by a newspaper paragraph) that he returned somehow to San Francisco and died in the hospital.

It was Adna's business to beat the shyster lawyers to the granger and beat the granger to the last penny.

A blank shyster, who had swindled the widows and orphans in Arkansas and escaped from jail.

The shyster lawyer who had done the Powers out of their inheritance had come from New Hampshire.

THE BRIMMING CUPDOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985