small-timeadjective
uk/ˈsmɔːl.taɪm/us/ˈsmɑːl.taɪm/disapprovingnot very successful or important:
a small-time crook
a small-time theatre
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- rope
- stillborn
- struggling
- the doldrums
- unavailing
- unglued
- unpromising
- washed up
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Of little or less importance
small-timer
noun [ C ] uk/ˈsmɔːl.taɪ.mər/us/ˈsmɑːl.taɪ.mɚ/
The police are arresting the small-timers when they should be going for the ringleaders.