sheisty

adj. dishonest, shady, shifty, suspicious. Also shysty, shiesty. Subjects: English, United States, Derogatory, Slang

Etymological Note: From shyster, a dishonest person, esp. a lawyer.

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Citations: 1993 [dredhead@netcom.com (Sean Kristopher Person)] Usenet: alt.rap (July 8) “Re: pharcyde show”: Last 18 and over shot I went too was at the Paladium. Yeah, that day which virtually shut the club down perminately, as fools ran around scrapin,” shotin’ in the air and other BS. The problem is they let EVERYBODY in! I saw kids there where probably no more than 16 years old. Once again, 7-Oasis does some shiesty shit. 1995 [mlkst22@vms.cis.pitt.edu] Usenet: rec.arts.comics.misc (Mar. 29) “why i quit collecting before i got started. hhhrrmmpphh!”: i’ll leave the actual collecting to shysty business men who take advantage of everyone they can. [1999 Mark Whicker Orange County Register (California) (Mar. 7) “Holyfield becomes champion talker, too” p. C1: “Bean’s a shiesty fighter,” he said. Shiesty? “He didn’t know what he was doing. So how did I know what he would do?”] 2000 Andrea Comer Hartford Courant (Conn.) (Apr. 2) “Outsider’s View Of Hip-Hop” p. G3: Their travails, the baby-mama drama, the “sheisty” record execs, the violence that comes closer than most of us will ever experience, are all documented in “Westside”. 2003 Derek J. Moore Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) (Mar. 4) “Lance Salazar Series: Where Are They Now?” p. D8: Playing in pool halls left him with the impression that most people are “shiesty” and hard to trust. 2004 Curbed (New York City) (Aug. 20) “Curbed Readers Report”: Regarding yesterday’s rant against an unsavory real estate broker, a savory broker emails, “It’s too bad that shiesty brokers like the one in the FSBO story ruin the reputation for good, ethical brokers in NYC.” 2005 Paul Light Ultrablog (Orange County, California) (Jan. 18) “Shiesty?”: I’ve seen several bloggers use the term in different ways. In one case it seemed to mean “crappy,” which makes sense if it’s from the German “sheisse” (shit), but otter peeps don’t use it like that. “She got shiesty on me,” one blogger wrote, and in context it seemed to mean “weird” or possibly “suspicious.” Definitely not “shitty.”

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