Shyster vs Pettifogger - What's the difference?
shyster | pettifogger | Synonyms |
Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections.
* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 39:
An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.
* 1822 , , The Fortunes of Nigel , ch. 11:
* 1885 , The Bay State Monthly , Vol. 3, No. 6:
* 1926 June 28, "
Pettifogger is a synonym of shyster.
As nouns the difference between shyster and pettifogger
is that shyster is someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics while pettifogger is someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections.shyster
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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
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*pettifogger
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Noun
(en noun)- Hence the cunning measure of appointing as ambassador some political pettifogger skilled in delays, sophisms, and misapprehensions, and dexterous in the art of baffling argument.
- "An inn, or a tavern . . . these are places where greasy citizens take pipe and pot, where the knavish pettifoggers of the law spunge on their most unhappy victims.
- . . .yet he has never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger , to confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness. . . .
National Affairs: Blind Mans Huff," Time :
- "Donald Hughes, well known in Minneapolis as a conscienceless shyster, was placed in charge of the case. . . . Mr. Edgerton, a high class, reputable lawyer, was called in of counsel from another city to lend respectability to the crooked, unprincipled, blackmailing pettifogger , Hughes."
