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
"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
“What if I make a schmuck out of myself? What if I forget the words to my song?”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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Up to this point, Judge’s filmography was exceedingly kind, willing to dig deeper and find humanity in an entire universe of schmucks and mediocrities.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
I didn’t know Matt and I would end up the last schmucks left in our hometown, seemingly the only people shaking our heads at the advent of a $6 cup of joe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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