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
Was Kiritsis a narcissistic madman or a schmuck who’d put too much trust in the American ideals of hard work and fair treatment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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
Now I was Percy Jackson, the poor schmuck with the ugly monster for a brother.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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
“If you are Richie Weeks, you think to yourself, ‘Who are these schmucks?
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
But don’t feel sorry for the schmucks Robinson plays, even when they start to cry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Endorsing schmucks you've never met in your life and couldn't care less about and then spreading some cash around.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021
“And we’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018
