Sentence examples similar to small-time trickster from inspiring English sources

The small-time tricksters, con artists and salesmen who people Mamet's best plays are desperate individuals, paranoid, lonely dupes of a capitalist system that was pulling a faster one on them than they were on each other.

The thin plot line deals with the development of Franco from small time, trickster magician without moral compass to the almost-great and powerful, if still a bit flawed, but personable Oz.

Mama started small-time trading.

Minna is a small-time Brooklyn gangster.

This is no small-time case.

Too small-time.

The small-time fame.

Small times.

With Small Time Crooks.

It was lucrative, if small time.

But this time, the trickster fails: in one single, stark panel, Shanower captures in Clytemnestra's face a shattered shore that the rosy fingers of myth cannot ever touch.