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

That was strategic on my part, thinking if I were in their shoes and there’s one schmuck without his taste, who are you gonna pick last?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022

He promised me he would be there, that schmuck.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole