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
“If you don’t want to make a difference, why are you running? Let some other schmuck do it.”
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2025
"They called me the schmuck from Hanover," he laughs.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023
He promised me he would be there, that schmuck.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
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
“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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