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

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

The cases of the week involving two-bit schemers and has-beens are easy enough to make stick.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

The result is a kind of two-bit black market, rife with clever workarounds and conspiracy theories, and no small amount of social friction.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2021

You think we’ll hit the highway an’ look for another lousy two-bit job like this.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck