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
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
Corporate decision makers, and even some two-bit entrepreneurs like my boss at The Maids, occupy an economic position miles above that of the underpaid people whose labor they depend on.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
