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
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
Just because he can’t remember the name of some two-bit movie star?
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
