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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

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

“You’ve been making a schmuck out of yourself for years, Nate,” Libby says.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

“We’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 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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