two-bit
Example Sentences
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Nobody has been able to make any sense of either of these two-bit wonders.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 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
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
But most gangsters were, as the cliche assures us, two-bit gangsters.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
