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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unscrupulous lawyer; swindler |
| Synonyms: | ambulance chaser, cheater, chiseler, crooked lawyer, mouthpiece, pettifogger, scammer, trickster, unethical lawyer |
| Main Entry: | counsel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal representative |
| Synonyms: | adviser, advocate, attorney, barrister, bomber, counselor, legal adviser, legal beagle, legal eagle, lip, mouthpiece, patch, shyster, solicitor |
| Notes: | counsel is 'advice, guidance' and a counsel is a lawyer; a council is a deliberative body of people assembled for some purpose and members are councillors (especially in Britain) |
| Main Entry: | crook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal, thief |
| Synonyms: | cheat, filcher, knave, pilferer, purloiner, racketeer, robber, rogue, scoundrel, shark, shyster, swindler, villain |
| Antonyms: | law, police |
| Main Entry: | impostor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person pretending to be something else |
| Synonyms: | actor, beguiler, bluffer, charlatan, cheat, con artist, deceiver, empiric, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hypocrite, imitator, impersonator, masquerader, mimic, mocker, mountebank, pettifogger, phony, pretender, pseudo, quack, scorner, sham, sharper, shyster, trickster |
| Main Entry: | scamp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rascal |
| Synonyms: | cheat, cheater, delinquent, fraud, hooligan*, liar, mischief-maker, prankster, rapscallion, reprobate, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scallywag, scoundrel, shyster, sneak, swindler, trickster, troublemaker, villain, whippersnapper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ambulance chaser |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unethical lawyer |
| Synonyms: | attorney, lawyer, legal eagle, pettifogger, shyster, unethical attorney |
| Main Entry: | Philadelphia lawyer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shady character |
| Synonyms: | horse trader, shrewd attorney, shyster, trickster |
| Main Entry: | sharper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | bilk, bluff, charlatan, cheater, chiseler, con artist, confidence operator, conniver, cozener, crook, deceiver, decoy, defrauder, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, enticer, fake*, hypocrite, impostor, inveigler, jockey, masquerader, pretender, quack, rascal, rogue, rook, scammer, shark, shyster, swindler, trickster, victimizer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | victimizer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | bilk, bluff, charlatan, cheater, chiseler, con artist, confidence operator, conniver, cozener, crook, deceiver, decoy, defrauder, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, enticer, fake*, hypocrite, impostor, inveigler, jockey, masquerader, pretender, quack, rascal, rogue, rook, scammer, shark, sharper, shyster, swindler, trickster |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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