adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crook
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The crows meanwhile have taken on another persona of small-time crooks .
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A dominant theme in these portrayals is criminality in East End communities: small-time crooks , petty crime and drinking clubs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a small-time drug dealer
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Most of Jenkins' articles were about small-time police corruption.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure.
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Even small-time investors can place their money in venture capital funds traded on Wall Street.
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It was either small-time crookery or the docks, and I thought, well, the crookery's better, really.
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It was not an astonishing one, in the context of a small-time drugs network.
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Robert Burke, a Hartley regular, is Bill McCabe, a small-time conman who has just been dumped by his girl.
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The crimes were petty stuff, small-time marijuana, heroin started coming in.
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What we are is a nation of small-time sinners, which is not per se unusual nor even particularly bad.
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With the rise of the bond markets, the equity salesmen and traders had been reduced by comparison to small-time toll takers.