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Discover Ludwig"small-time criminal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe a criminal who is not highly skilled or successful, often involved in petty crimes rather than major offenses. One could use this phrase in a sentence like: "The town was plagued by small-time criminals who would steal from local businesses and homes."
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A comedy about a small-time criminal in the unforgiving underworld, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival (1 30).
Fuller, who adopts the CB handle Black Sheep, is a charming small-time criminal, and Mr. Zahn emphasizes the charm.
It's hard not to feel some admiration for Frank Bourassa, the small-time criminal turned big-time counterfeiter whom Wells Tower wrote about recently for GQ.
Ibrahim, a small-time criminal and Brussels bar owner, with vague links with radical Islam, immediately blew himself up outside the Comptoir Voltaire bar.
For years, he was a small-time criminal, drifting around the world, on the run, doing this and that – in other words, the genuine hippie experience.
Starring alongside Robert De Niro in Olivier Assayas's Idol's Eye, he will play a small-time criminal caught up with the Chicago mafia.
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The film portrays two small-time criminals, Francesca and Walter, in northern Italy.
New York's gun trade, according to Mintz, is carried out on a piecemeal basis, mostly by small-time criminals.
Tells about the man who used to chop wood, hones men, bums, small-time criminals, alcohol and dope addicts.
Its lead characters are small-time criminals who tend to speak in ambitious and hilariously orotund turns of phrase.
Ben Mr. Shenn), a naïve grind of an overachiever, is pulled into an orbit of friends and small-time criminals.
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