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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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023

"He turned out to be the biggest schmuck I've ever met," she said.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023

I feel like a schmuck for financing her and her kids.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2023

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

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

In their places stood Jerry Seinfeld, Seth Rogen, and Adam Sandler, who were deep trenches of playing schmucks and schlubs.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2021

The not-exactly-hidden subtext being, "that won't happen again, schmucks".

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2019

“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

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a couple of schmucks who manage to make big bucks in the international arms trade in the fact-based 2016 dark comedy "War Dogs."

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2017


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