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Examples
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When I was going to law school in the 1970s, they had a annual social event called the Shyster Holiday Invitational Tournament [SHIT for short].
Salem-News.com 2009
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"Shyster" turned out to be a Yiddish corruption of a German vulgarism meaning a crooked lawyer.
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Report Abuse I think "Shyster" should be in place of "Chrysler" !
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And what they want for them is a bunch of "Shyster".
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And I know for a fact that any Chrysler car dealership will let you buy one of their "Shyster" cars for the same
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"Shyster" is derived from the German word "scheiss," which translates to the swear word for No. 2 in the bathroom.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Geraldo is the walking, talking definition of 'Shyster' as he termed the Bush administration using the military tribunals to evade the Constitution.
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I get the same feeling about Huckabee ... the word 'Shyster' keeps coming to mind.
Latest Articles Nietzche is Dead 2008
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"Shyster," said our old man, as he called me into his own den, or rather lair, -- (for den, I take it, is the private residence of a beast of prey, and lair his place of business.
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Guy might as well wear a sandwich board around the Jersey courthouses: Corrupt and Morally Bankrupt Shyster.
Much easier to win cases when witnesses against your clients turn up dead 2009
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