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It's so easy you could do it yourself if you weren't just interested in harassment.: ""Some etymologists believe ""shyster"" is a derivative of Shakespeare’s character Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, used to describe a devious, scheming person of Jewish background who will try any scam in the book to make a buck. In 1895, Funk’s Standard Dictionary defined a shyster as ""a lawyer who practices in an unprofessional or tricky manner; especially one who haunts the prisons and lower courts to prey on petty criminals."" In Shakespeare’s play, other characters call Shylock a ""currish Jew"" whose ""desires are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous""; he is accused of being ""the devil … in the likeness of a Jew."" ""  21:23, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)"