English Dictionary

shyster

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈʃaɪs.tə(ɹ)/

名詞

Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.

日本語の意味

不正や詐欺的な手法を用いる、信頼に欠ける人物（特に弁護士や政治家など）を指す俗語。 / 不誠実でずる賢いと評される、非倫理的な手段で目的を遂げる人

When questioned about the settlement, the client accused the lawyer of being a shyster who prioritized profits over justice.

和解について問われたとき、依頼人はその弁護士を正義よりも利益を優先する不誠実で悪質な弁護士だと非難した。

意味（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 shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.

shysters （ plural ）