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schmuck

[shmuhk] / ʃmʌk /


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“They think, ‘I’m the only schmuck that feels this bad,’ and never get the corrective feedback that depression is like the common cold of mental illness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“If you don’t want to make a difference, why are you running? Let some other schmuck do it.”

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025

It’s the reminder some poor schmuck had Abilene Christian, and so we owe it to that man to properly document what happened and try our best to laugh in a way that’s comforting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024

"They called me the schmuck from Hanover," he laughs.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023

Now I was Percy Jackson, the poor schmuck with the ugly monster for a brother.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Up to this point, Judge’s filmography was exceedingly kind, willing to dig deeper and find humanity in an entire universe of schmucks and mediocrities.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

And on the sublime Mariners Apartment Complex, she even addresses the people - critics, boyfriends, record-industry bigwigs - who "mistook my kindness for weakness", the not-exactly-hidden subtext being: "That won't happen again, schmucks."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

But don’t feel sorry for the schmucks Robinson plays, even when they start to cry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

“And we’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018

They could have been any two billionaire schmucks taking an evening stroll through Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018




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