small-time

How To Use small-time In A Sentence

• In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle.
• They were ‘just small-time crooks who thought they were a lot bigger than they were’, according to Richardson.
• Performer Mark Wahlberg began his public life as a small-time thug, even doing time at one point for the savage beatings of two Vietnamese men.
• At the same time he paints a sad picture of the dreamland inhabited by his drunks, druggies and small-time punks.
• His father had also been a small-time crook too, and had been stripped of his war medals. Times, Sunday Times
• The author of this article, me, Chris Burns, is verst only in the small-time wheatpasting technique and small-town spraypainting. World Famous Design Junkies » 2010 » February
• How the small-time actors feel about the gulf that separates them from megastars who make megabucks is not discussed.
• The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists.
• Some say that Cockney was also used by small-time criminals to confuse the police.
• Johnny was a small-time pool room hustler.