schmuck

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023

A 6-foot-tall stack of $100 bills dressed in a Savile Row suit, Bevel’s only notable trait is that he’s a schmuck.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2022

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

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan