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
The cases of the week involving two-bit schemers and has-beens are easy enough to make stick.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023
“I guess you realize we wouldn’t have come all the way to Nevada just to chat with a couple of two-bit check chiselers.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
