Synonyms for shyster
Definitions
- n. 1
Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
Related words
- Other spellings
- sheister shiester
Forms
- Plural
- shysters → swindlers, tricksters, rogues, knaves…
Example sentences
- rogue Those rogue rebels do not deserve to roam the Earth.
- knave You've thwarted my plans for the last time, you miserable knave!
- swindler She went so far as to say that he was a swindler.
- lawyer Ben decided to tell the lawyer everything he knew.
By length
- 5 letters
- shark1, rogue1, knave1
- 6 letters
- lawyer2
- 7 letters
- sharper2
- 8 letters
- imposter3, swindler3, wriggler
- 9 letters
- trickster2
- 11 letters
- pettifogger
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lawyer2 = 2 syllables).