Synonyms of shyster

shyster

noun

as in lawyer

chiefly US, informal a person who is dishonest especially in politics or in the practice of law

—often used before another noun

a shyster lawyer

Related Words

• lawyer
• attorney
• pettifogger
• advocate
• counselor
• Philadelphia lawyer
• prosecutor
• solicitor
• ambulance chaser
• attorney-at-law
• counsel
• district attorney
• counselor-at-law
• prosecuting attorney
• legal eagle
• mouthpiece
• jurist
• cocounsel
• trial lawyer
• criminal lawyer
• public defender
• legislator
• lawmaker
• lawgiver
• solon

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shyster

The despicable Lindsay Clancy lawyer, using a repulsive alternative defense, shows the egregious chutzpah some shysters resort to to get a client off. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 2 Oct. 2026

The filmmaker has likened his perspective in this project to that of Dorothy’s dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz, alert to the shuffling feet beneath the curtain rather than being bamboozled by the shyster title character’s techno showmanship. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025

To demonstrate that point in a video, a researcher told a robot arm to put a bunch of plastic grapes into a clear Tupperware container, then proceeded to shift three containers around on the table in an approximation of a shyster’s shell game. — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2025

Holmes is another shyster whose story has been dissected in several documentaries and in dramatizations like Hulu’s The Dropout, but Gibney brings specific insights and a fresh perspective to this truly unbelievable story. — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 July 2024

And there’s a character on there who is—plays kind of a shyster attorney. — Nick Sibilla, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022

How Bob Odenkirk became the great American shyster in the riveting show, Better Call Saul. — Kyle Smith, National Review, 1 May 2022

In the 1930s, it was purchased by Norman Baker, a shyster who lured cancer patients to come here for treatments that had no medicinal value. — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2020