Sentence examples for small-time swindler from inspiring English sources
Eventually, Theo moves from New York to Las Vegas, to live with his father, a gambler and small-time swindler, and later moves back to New York, where he starts working for Hobie.
Although Fellini's biographer John Baxter suggests the director saw an alliance with De Laurentiis - then the king of commercial Italian cinema - as an unholy, dangerous partnership, De Laurentiis is certainly speaking the truth that no one else was prepared to support Fellini, who was coming off the flop that was the small-time swindler yarn Il Bidone.
Ms. Montague said Ms. Smith had been married once, briefly, to a mason and small-time hustler who was known around Newark as Swindler Joe.
TOWER HEIST The manager of a luxury apartment building (Ben Stiller) teams up with a small-time criminal (Eddie Murphy) for revenge on the Wall Street swindler (Alan Alda) who stole the building employees' retirement fund.
Mama started small-time trading.
Minna is a small-time Brooklyn gangster.
This is no small-time case.
