Lawyer vs Shyster - What's the difference?
lawyer | shyster |
A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers ; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
(informal) To practice law.
To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
To make legalistic arguments.
With "up", to acquire the services of a lawyer.
(colloquial, criminal law) With "up", to exercise the right to ask for the presence of one's attorney.
To barrage with questions in order to get the person to admit something, usually used in the past tense "[You've been] lawyered."
Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
As nouns the difference between lawyer and shyster
is that lawyer is a professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i.e. conduct lawsuits and/or give legal advice while shyster is someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.As a verb lawyer
is to practice law.lawyer
English
(wikipedia lawyer)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* advocate * attorney * counselorDerived terms
* corporate lawyer * jailhouse lawyer * lawyering * lawyerlySee also
* solicitor * barristerVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
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shyster
English
Alternative forms
* schister, scheister, sheister, schyster, shister, shaista, shiester, schiesterNoun
(en noun)- Polly' (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that ' shyster in there?
- Dr. Feingarten': I could sue you, Polly. A ' shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
- - From the motion picture