shyster

shyster

1. A practitioner of law who is unethical or immoral. After the accident, I got calls from all sorts of shysters saying I could get rich if I let them sue the company on my behalf. Everyone knows she's a total shyster who'll go to any length to win her case.
2. By extension, someone of a dubious moral or legal standard; a suspected swindler, cheat, or fraud. The shysters said the car was brand new, but it's been having all sorts of problems ever since I bought it.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shyster

(ˈʃɑɪstɚ)
n. an unethical or unscrupulous lawyer. (Also a rude term of address.) Look, you cheap shyster, I paid you to help me, not ruin me!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • make (the) baby Jesus cry
  • backslider
  • slimeball
  • slime bag
  • slimebag
  • sup with the devil
  • dine with the devil
  • bulk
  • bulk bill
  • not want to know
References in periodicals archive
EIGHT TO TANGO: The Shysters from Coventry are off to the Edinburgh Festival and also attracting TV interest
Apocalypso now for city drama group; SHYSTERS HEAD FOR EDINBURGH FESTIVAL WITH LATEST STAGE HIT
"Come on you guys, give The Shyster a break and shut up for a few minutes!" Frog screamed.
The meeting
Members of Shysters Theatre Company - made up of actors with learning disabilities - got into costume for a filming session at St Mary's Guildhall, in Coventry city centre.
Shysters still on the scene - 10 years on; ANNIVERSARY: Theatre group to mark milestone with Peeping Tom tale
(From left) Jon Tipton of the Shysters, Richard Spencer, of the Cuppers Hatters Guild, John Irvine, dean of Coventry Cathedral, Lyndsay Evans of Non-Descript and Mr Leno of the Highly Sprung Performance Company.
Mystery line-up in battle of the guilds
ACTORS from Coventry-based theatre company The Shysters will be appearing alongside Matthew Kelly in Don Quixote Rides Again.
STAGE WHISPERS; GO: THEATRE
Like many of the shysters of the Celtic Tiger years, good riddance to bad rubbish.
why westliFe will always be No2
Alison, who has been married for four years, has also been asked to work with local theatre company Shysters.
Alison delays US move for sake of art
aIN 2009 we asked if Total Refund Limited were total incompetents or total shysters.
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COVENTRY-BASED theatre company The Shysters will be appearing alongside Matthew Kelly and George Costigan in new musical Don Quixote Rides Again at Birmingham Rep from June 24.
GO: THEATRE: STAGE WHISPERS
A bunch of shysters bought a greenfield site at studley, Warwickshire, for pounds 6,579 and then sold plots to investors for almost pounds 3million.
LANDED IN IT BY SHYSTERS; INVESTIGATE
COVENTRY'S acclaimed learning disabled theatre company, The Shysters, will be taking their new work Tango Apocalypso to the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, on March 23 as part of a national tour.
GO: THEATRE: STAGE WHISPERS
The new offering from The Shysters is a story of doomed love set against a background of trains and railway stations.
GO: THEATRE: Shysters' tale of doomed love is a rail treat
The management alleged that the money the company used to compensate bogus farmers was shared out by shysters and some Sony insiders who leaked vital documents.
Two lawyers in plot fleece Sony Sugar charged with fraud
CON-ARTISTS and shysters who commit so-called "romance scams" are among the cruellest of fraudsters.
Truly heartless; RECORD VIEW