How To Use Shyster In A Sentence
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I was under no obligation to serve anything to the other party whatsoever, and if they had any complaints then they should take it up with the shyster.
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They can create unchallengeable hierarchies of bejewelled or epauletted shysters, but then so can other human organisations.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were the shysters who were into every business deal jamming the honest flow of commerce with fakery and fraud.
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‘There were shysters, con men, everybody who would find this business attractive because you print your own money,’ he recalls.
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Paulsen was a crook and a shyster, and McCain goes along with flimflams as did Bush, as he did when he sat with Bush/Obama last Fall, and blessed all this resultant madness.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s in Waxman-Markey?
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So now, six years in, what should these shysters, lawyers, and purveyors of vacuous mediocrity do next?
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If there'd been anything to sue and resue and re-resue over, you can bet those 5,000 shysters the campaign flew in would be doing it.
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I seem to recall the abolishment of a certain low tax band too. if you bunch of lying cheating shysters hadn't spent the publics money like a bunch of drunken sailors on shore leave nobody would be putting up VAT in the first place.
The Guardian World News
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No one knows what Bush did, except run companies into the ground and daddy's friends bailed him out, and I'm supposed to believe Edwards is some kind of shyster for helping poor families?
Archive 2004-07-01
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It has come to such a pass in this so-called chivalrous country that sensitive women will submit to almost any wrong rather than seek redress in our courts of law, where they are liable to be subjected to studied insult by unconscionable shysters.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Ellis claims that the deceased shyster forgave him several months' rent that Harry now tries to collect.
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Superspeed shootist sheriff slays sister on the way to silver bullet showdown with supervillain shyster.
Archive 2007-06-01
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The gun manufacturers, together with other interested parties, should sue the law schools that manufacture the sort of ambulance-chasing shysters who initiate such litigation.
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Austere narrative depicts a 1950s Peterborough, Ontario swarming with tricksters, murderers, shysters and sodomites.
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“‘A serious man’ is crowded with fat Jews, aggressive Jews, passive-aggressive Jews, traitor Jews, loser Jews, shyster-Jews, emo-Jews, Jews who slurp their chicken soup, and – passing as sages – a clutch of yellow-teethed, know-nothing rabbis”.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?
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Steve Hicks Lawrence, Kansas In his article, "That Dirty Bird," on the onomastic migrations of the shitepoke [III, 3], Steven R. Hicks makes passing reference to the intriguing word shyster, an American colloquialism dating from at least as early as 1846 (see Mitford Mathews, Americanisms, 1966).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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But, considerably as a consequence of Campbell's own track record (as, indeed, a "shyster"), the public is very rightly very wary of ever believing anything the government says.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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It is almost impossible to find a lawyer that is not a shyster.
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He was a shyster lawyer, and had a wife and thirteen half-witted children.
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And presently Jake Hibbard, the worst "shyster" in the village, shuffled in -- noticeable anywhere for his suit of rusty black, his empty sleeve pinned to his coat, the green patch over his eye, and his tobacco-stained lips.
The Calico Cat
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He's a shyster, they say, ripping off poor uneducated country folk with his mumbo-jumbo, and luring a stream of young girls into his bed.
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Today many of the players earn huge amounts of money, and in place of the local shyster looking for a little glory, you have the multinational capitalist looking for huge profits.
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In a devised piece of theatre, dance and mime, The Shysters' cast of eight actors with learning disabilities present a love story set in the key of a fateful fandango.
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The defense painted the accuser's mother as a shakedown shyster.
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I could have said her son the no good, lazy, shiftless shyster but I'm in a mood to be nice today.
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For instance, imagine if Washington abandoned the Redskins mascot to adopt the Shysters DC, more lawyers per captia, etc. complete with a guy in a foam rubber shark in a cheap suit as a mascot...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Laches Proves To Be the Most Valuable Player:
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Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square.
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It was like a set from an American B-movie about a lone peewee shyster, save for the parrot in a cage.
OUTCAST
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But to a significant degree it keeps out shysters, and those who are in meet minimum acceptable standards.
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I put myself out on the line for this guy, and he was nothing but a shyster with a slick lawyer.
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He was going to be the one true "seer" -- poke fun at the soft underbelly of politics, keeping us smiling and "in the know" -- the "shysters" wouldn't stand a chance with Jon Stewart on guard!
Mike Hegedus: Jon, You're Wrong. It is a Game, and You're a Player!
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Well, the states still have equal suffrage in the Senate, but this kind of what I call shyster lawyerism has been used to permit the federal government to overrun the Constitutional bounds on its powers.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Sotomayor Vote:
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And some would call him a big, you know, phony and a shyster.
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He had begun his career as an "ambulance chaser," had risen later to the dignity of a police court lawyer, and now was of the type that might be called, for want of a better name, a high class "shyster" -- unscrupulous, sharp, cunning.
The Ear in the Wall
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The creepiest is a former state senator nicknamed the Shyster, who talks about his pedophilia with unnerving sangfroid.
Living Among the Outcasts; a Shattered Family
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`I've still gotta question Tettlinger when his shyster gets here.
FOOLS GOLD
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Bill Brown, somewhat of a shyster, and his ear ever cocked to the crowd, was not above taking advantage when opportunity offered, and when it did not offer, to dogmatize artfully.
CHAPTER 28
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Besides being a religious shyster, or a hoodwinked dupe, that is.
Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb
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He declared the amount to be ‘good value for money in a business largely conducted by shysters and sharks.’
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This wasn't an accidental outburst: he went on to repeat the word "shyster" twice more.
F&C falls to a very American coup. Now what?
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Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes.
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It is almost impossible to find a lawyer that is not a shyster.
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Joseph Alessi's playing of the husband and then a shyster lawyer is fine acting.
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There is no place for chancers, shysters and skelms at sea… no political payback appointments who could literally sink a ship.
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Whenever I see or hear the word "shyster" a picture of L. Davis forms in my mind.
Lanny Davis joins VoteBoth
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Mr. Cohen said that Mr. Shulman was first to challenge that "shyster" derived from a lawyer named Scheuster.
Languagehat.com: RIP DAVID SHULMAN.
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Is it not a fitting monument to 13 years of shyster Tory Government?
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The legality of such documents is under question in the Congress, as their party's lawyers exploit the finer points of how any old shyster is allowed to use the word census.
Bernard Radfar: Surreal Republican Scam
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Lafferty's longtime business partner, Allan Aitken, told me that he believed that "Biro was either a shyster or a con man, and had found in Lafferty an easy mark.
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It was like a set from an American B-movie about a lone peewee shyster, save for the parrot in a cage.
OUTCAST
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`It's hard to believe that one small-town shyster could have wrought such havoc just by forging a marriage licence.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
