bush-league

Example Sentences

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In a column, The Chicago Tribune’s film critic, Michael Phillips, called Sightline “a bush-league pickpocket move” and “the latest tiny nail getting tap-tap-tapped into the coffin currently under construction for an entire era of filmgoing.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Next they want to tear down our beloved two-mile superspeedway and replace it with a bush-league half-mile track.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2021

What he’s giving them in return is a strange, bush-league, pull-it-out-of-your-ear, always-indulge-your-emotions campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 4, 2016

I don’t care how married to him you are, that’s a bush-league move.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2016

Desperate, the jockey resorted to an old bush-league tactic.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand