two-bit
Example Sentences
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By his own admission, Cohen was a two-bit flunkie who barely worked as a lawyer but more as a "fixer."
From Salon • May 13, 2024
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
The stories never say that the employer “‘demands’ that the union men agree to work for a two-bit raise; the union never ‘offers’ to accept more.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 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
That the lite of a man is worth the sale of a two-bit paper doll .
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
