two-bit
Example Sentences
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For someone who frequently proclaims his innocence, Donald Trump sure loves to act like a two-bit gangster.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 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
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
“Where I’m gonna get a thousand dollars, though? All me and Ignatius got is my poor husband’s Social Security and a little two-bit pension, and that don’t come to much.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
