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shystering

shystering is the present participle and gerund of shyster.

Meaning of shyster

Verb

shyster (third-person singular simple present shysters, present participle shystering, simple past and past participle shystered)

  1. (intransitive) To act in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
  2. (transitive) To exploit (someone or something) in this way.

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Questions about shystering

What is shystering the present participle and gerund of?
Shystering is the present participle and gerund of shyster.

Words near shystering in the dictionary

  1. Shys
  2. shyshark
  3. shysharks
  4. shyster
  5. shystered
  6. shystering
  7. shysterish
  8. shysterism
  9. shysters
  10. shystie
  11. shystier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shystering (page history and authors); shyster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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