schlump
Example Sentences
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Mr. Jacobs’s dramatic physical transformation from “a withdrawn schlump in eyeglasses,” as a 2008 New Yorker profile of him said, into someone “muscular, bronzed, shining with diamonds,” seemed to presage a new era, one that not all fans embraced.
From New York Times
To be fair to Casey Affleck, he is not the biggest schlump in show business.
From New York Times
Soon enough Schlump is sent to the front lines, where he learns about real terror.
From New York Times
Having fought in World War I, Grimm published “Schlump” anonymously in 1928.
From New York Times
Schlump ends up recuperating at a hospital, and the book’s battle scenes are framed by his more genteel adventures.
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