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• n  a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

• Liberal young Lawyer Garrison crusaded against shyster ambulance chasers and bankruptcy grafters in New York City in the late 19205, was called by President Herbert Hoover to .
• California, Illinois and Ohio, which have the highest bankruptcy rates in the country, are no strangers to the shyster who tells a beleaguered debtor: "Don't worry about a thing .
• In The Fortune Cookie shyster Walter Matthau says that insurance companies have too much money: "They've run out of storage space--they have to microfilm it.

• pettifogger

News & Articles

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• TLC's Manager FURIOUS Over Biopic -- I Want Retractions!!!
  TLC's former manager is LIVID over the new VH1 biopic about the 90s girl group -- telling TMZ, she was wrongly portrayed as a shyster in the movie ... and now she wants the network to make some serious retractions.Perri "Pebbles" Reid tells us it has… Permalink
  Oct. 31, 2013 - TMZ

Quotes

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• Rudi Johnson in CBC.ca
  All this happened once he got released,Johnson told reporters as he came off the practice field. "He came here to get some stuff out of his locker [and] that is when he scooped the bags up. Some real shyster, conniving stuff, man."
• Kristin Davis in Human Events (blog)
  Spitzer's criminal patterns prove that he'll only let us down again,said Davis. "This shyster should not be trusted. He'll only let us down again."
• Ken Bates in guardian.co.uk
  Here we are working night and day to make Leeds United a creditable club once again,Bates wrote in those notes, "and we are distracted by this shyster (no, that is not anti-Semitic) trying to blackmail us into paying him money to buy him...