(n.) A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
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Shyster
Definition:
(n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
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(1) Yet, like Shelley's west wind, he was a "spirit fierce", who stood against the vested interests of the corrupt, the power hungry, the liars, cheats, hypocrites and shysters.
(2) In a leaked email to Japan Tobacco International seeking a £1,000 rise on his existing £4,500 monthly fee, Prof Scruton argued that in a business "largely conducted by shysters and sharks" he represented value for money.
(3) Asked if he saw himself as one of the "shysters and sharks", Prof Scruton said: "No, on the contrary, but that's what I think of public affairs generally.
(4) Ukip is a party of con artists, myth peddlers, charlatans and professional shysters.
(5) The opening scenes, which show Laybourne fresh in London, more than a little green and suddenly in the midst of metropolitan sharpies and shysters, have an authentic whiff of the Dickensian about them.
(6) It may not last for long; Tehran's sharpers and shysters may have more aces up their sleeves.