schmo

I paid extra for this ultra-convenient way to watch my favorite sport, and you’re treating me like, what, some schmo watching on network television?

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025

Ed Sheeran wouldn’t let just any old schmo accompany him on “Thinking Out Loud” in front of 70,000 people, especially on an instrument they’ve only played for a few weeks.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025

“He or she is going to passively take whatever tweeting rights and whatever content Twitter the company provides, and whoever’s calling the shots, joe schmo Twitter user doesn’t have any control.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

The early going focuses on Rand — less villain than schmo, a hapless angry mullet — and on a parodic rendering of Pam and Tommy’s whirlwind courtship.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

“Can you believe that schmo? He says that Aaron ran off, maybe freight-hopped to St. Louis or Cincinnati.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The not-so-shocking revelation of the original “Squid Game” was that these poor schmoes were being toyed and done away with for the entertainment of the jaded rich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

Judge has more sympathy with ordinary schmoes who just want to do a job they believe in for eight to 10 hours a day, then go home and play video games.

From The Verge ● Oct. 25, 2019

Instead of relying on schmoes to mock draft based on their hunches, a computer could learn how to draft based on data.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2016

But in everyday life we relate to them mostly as the same flawed, selfish, bumbling schmoes we’ve always been.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2012

Not insignificantly their put-upon schmoes are often coping with conditions more serious than arrested development.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2012