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sheister

sheister is the alternative form of shyster.

Meaning of shyster

Noun

shyster (plural shysters)

  1. Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
    • True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a...1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    pettifogger

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Forms of sheister

pluralsheisters

Questions about sheister

What is sheister the alternative form of?
Sheister is the alternative form of shyster.

Words near sheister in the dictionary

  1. Shein
  2. Sheinbaum
  3. Sheinbaums
  4. Sheindlin
  5. Sheinwoodian
  6. sheister
  7. sheistier
  8. sheisties
  9. sheistiest
  10. sheisty
  11. sheit

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