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- noun The behavior and activities of
shysters .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everything is grist for the writer's mill, and such a juicy tale of scam and deceipt and fraud and hubris and shysterism and temerity has Mr Trafford caused to be revealed to the forum participants!
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I don't know about his commitment to his so called "ideas", but as an example of sheer political shysterism this is pretty impressive.
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The politicians may call it the entrepreneurial spirit and American individualism, but it's snake oil and shysterism.
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For those who practice journalistic shysterism, they will shield the mendacious and incompetent and merely self-promoting.
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For those who practice journalistic shysterism, they will shield the mendacious and incompetent and merely self-promoting.
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For those who practice journalistic shysterism, they will shield the mendacious and incompetent and merely self-promoting.
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As for LVMH, perhaps it's just my gender speaking, but I'm inured to the shock of such shysterism on the part of a luxury company.
Jezebel 2009
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