Explore Shyster through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like wrongdoer or offender. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shyster meaning
Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
Using Shyster
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
- Useful related words include: pettifogger, wrongdoer, offender.
Context around Shyster
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shyster
- In this selection, "shyster" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, abusive, incompetent and father stand out and add context to how "shyster" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include his abusive shyster father luke and how they shyster is actually. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shyster" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shyster
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An unscrupulous, incompetent shyster with a big pretentious nose and stovepipe hat, he lies and cheats to protect criminals. (19 words)
I wonder how long it will take the right to organize their talking points to try to explain how they shyster is actually not incompetent. (25 words)
The strongest scenes come once Theo is packed off to the suburbs of Las Vegas, in the custody of his abusive shyster father (Luke Wilson). (25 words)
I wonder how long it will take the right to organize their talking points to try to explain how they shyster is actually not incompetent. (25 words)
The strongest scenes come once Theo is packed off to the suburbs of Las Vegas, in the custody of his abusive shyster father (Luke Wilson). (25 words)
An unscrupulous, incompetent shyster with a big pretentious nose and stovepipe hat, he lies and cheats to protect criminals. (19 words)
Example sentences (3)
I wonder how long it will take the right to organize their talking points to try to explain how they shyster is actually not incompetent.
The strongest scenes come once Theo is packed off to the suburbs of Las Vegas, in the custody of his abusive shyster father (Luke Wilson).
An unscrupulous, incompetent shyster with a big pretentious nose and stovepipe hat, he lies and cheats to protect criminals.