plural schmucks
slang
: a stupid, foolish, or unlikeable person : jerk sense 1b
Do not be the poor schmuck who runs out of gas and is stranded when a natural disaster is about to hit.—
Ryan Carlyle
Ryan Carlyle… his realization that he's … like the rest of us, just an average schmuck who makes mistakes and tries to fix them.—Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan… cursing under your breath as some other schmuck wins all the Bingo prizes …—PortlandMercury.com
PortlandMercury.com… the phenomenon known as road rage, in which aggressive schmucks attack other people who get in the way of their four-by-fours.—Stanley Bing
Stanley BingIn the very early days, we used to do all sorts of stuff that no one would have suspected of us, so that when we did get to the level of "The Ed Sullivan Show," we were real and not just some little schmucks from out of town.—Paul McCartney
Paul McCartneySynonyms
- bastard
- beast
- bleeder [British]
- blighter [chiefly British]
- boor
- bounder
- bugger
- buzzard
- cad
- chuff
- churl
- clown
- creep
- cretin
- crud [slang]
- crumb [slang]
- cur
- dirtbag [slang]
- dog
- fink
- heel
- hound
- jerk
- joker
- louse
- lout
- pill
- rat
- rat fink
- reptile
- rotter
- scum
- scumbag [slang]
- scuzzball [slang]
- skunk
- sleaze
- sleazebag [slang]
- sleazeball [slang]
- slime
- slimeball [slang]
- slob
- snake
- so-and-so
- sod [chiefly British]
- stinkard
- stinker
- swine
- toad
- varmint
- vermin
Examples of schmuck in a Sentence
I can't believe what a schmuck that guy is.
don't be a schmuck and create an embarrassing scene in public
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In the aftermath of the Mets losing the NLCS to those Erewhon-guzzling schmucks from Los Angeles, John Mayer wrote an open letter dedicated to the team’s remarkable season and their smiley shortstop, Francisco Lindor, whom Mayer said became an unexpected muse to him and his career this year.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
His answer evokes countless nights in the Eighties and early Nineties, when he was likely left out in the line, waiting with the rest of us herbs and schmucks.
—Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
Contemporary golf course development is typically the purview of either big institutional players or a deep pocketed individual—not just ‘some schmuck who buys some land and tries to figure it out,’ as Koprowski puts it.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
And don’t be the schmuck on social media who tries to argue that because Lewis went 24-31 as the head coach of the Golden Flashes, his departure from the Colorado Buffaloes is no big loss.
—Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
His answer evokes countless nights in the Eighties and early Nineties, when he was likely left out in the line, waiting with the rest of us herbs and schmucks.
—Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
Contemporary golf course development is typically the purview of either big institutional players or a deep pocketed individual—not just ‘some schmuck who buys some land and tries to figure it out,’ as Koprowski puts it.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
And don’t be the schmuck on social media who tries to argue that because Lewis went 24-31 as the head coach of the Golden Flashes, his departure from the Colorado Buffaloes is no big loss.
—Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
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“Schmuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schmuck. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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schmuck
noun
slang
: a stupid or foolish person
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