two-bit
Example Sentences
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Brunner wrote that the majority ruling had relegated the court’s constitutional role “to little more than a two-bit player in furthering the delay already embedded in the history of this case.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2023
And, in his two-bit way, he played them like fiddles.
From Salon • Oct. 12, 2023
He resembled the missing link between the ghosts of Danny Aiello and Powers Boothe, with the rough, big-city bark of a two-bit gangster.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023
When “American Buffalo” first hit the stage, in Chicago in 1975, its portrait of lowlifes like Teach — two-bit grifters aping the realpolitik of American business — was a game changer.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022
Just because he can’t remember the name of some two-bit movie star?
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
