schmuck
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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
“But after I tackled him, I was like, run, Amos, you schmuck, he’s ten times bigger than you! And I got up and started running as fast as I could!”
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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
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
“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
