Sentence examples for small-time villain from inspiring English sources
Reggie went to the apartment of Jack (the Hat) McVitie, a small-time villain and former accomplice who had fallen out with the gang, shot him twice and then stabbed him so ferociously that his liver fell out.
Small-time villains have found a new way to sound big.
His intention was to be arrested, "in order to get a taste of prison and to bring himself closer to the tramps and small-time villains with whom he mingled", according to biographer Gordon Bowker.
As Howard Sounes recounts in his book on the case, Heist, through Albanian friends, Bucpapa met a small-time local villain, Lea Rusha, who in turn introduced him to the man regarded as the robbery's ringleader, Lee Murray, a cage-fighter.
Brecht's allegorical satire about Hitler's rise to power focuses on small-time crooks in Chicago; according to Church, "the charismatic villain is right at the heart of what we most love about theatre".
Mama started small-time trading.
The attempt to make the Texas Ranger an old-time villain doesn't work.
It makes a better prime-time villain.
From before Fleming's time, villains have always been more complex than heroes, and that's true here as well.
