(n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Unethical
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(2) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
(3) The clinical evaluation requires knowledge of the characteristics of physician substance abuse, of emotional disturbances including suicidality, of the emotional impact of litigation, and of the underlying causes of such unethical conduct as inappropriate prescribing of controlled substances and sexual contact with patients.
(4) On the first point, there seems to be no evidence of unethical behavior from reporters, at least.
(5) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
(6) Recent activities by some to decry clinical trials as unethical and restrict their conduct results in the totally unacceptable situation of withholding potentially valuable treatments from patients or subjecting patients to the unnecessary risks of treatments not proven safe and efficacious.
(7) Among the many examples is the case in which a supervisor ordered the psychologist to change his test report, thereby demanding unethical behavior.
(8) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(9) The scheme was condemned by government ministers, too, with social affairs minister Marisol Touraine branding the scheme “totally unethical”.
(10) That will also benefit the many companies that do innovate and invest in their staff and pay their taxes – and should not be undercut by the unethical practices of a few.
(11) In stark contrast to the data from studies of patient-therapist sexual involvement, there are more than twice as many films portraying unethical sexual behavior on the part of a female analyst as there are films depicting similar countertransference acting out by a male analyst.
(12) From 1950 to 1973, 82 charges of unethical conduct were made against APA members; of the 12 (15%) members who were found unethical, six were expelled.
(13) If regard is given to the embryo's transitional, near-human status, a decision to abort would be unethical unless all relevant facts were weighed.
(14) A spokesman said: “It’s not only an inaccurate method for assessing age, but it is both inappropriate and unethical to take radiographs of people when there is no health benefit for them.
(15) Instead it has terminated because of the unethical behaviour of one man, Andrew Wakefield, which undermined the emotional narrative of their story.
(16) "We deeply regret this inappropriate and unethical behaviour.
(17) It is unethical not to undertake research as long as hundreds of thousands of patients suffer from incapacitating mental disorders.
(18) It has the power to take every other business down with it, so unethical activity in the City poses society-wide dangers.
(19) While acquisition of such data is scientifically justified, the necessary study designs may be viewed as unethical if the body of information derived from circumstantial cases and therapeutic trials using historical controls only continues to shape clinical opinion.
(20) NAPF is concerned not just about damage to companies' reputations, but also the financial risks of relying on unethical business practices to cut costs.