How to Use schmuck in a Sentence
schmuck
noun
- I can't believe what a schmuck that guy is.
-
As for Blake… Yep, the poor schmuck left his key in the room.
—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
29 June 2021
-
Every now and then, the show’s emcee would check in on the poor schmucks and rub their noses in their defeat.
—
Joel Warner,
WIRED,
19 Nov. 2012
-
Over dinner, Chelsea tells Arie about her schmuck of an ex who left her when their son was six months old.
—
Melissa Locker,
Time,
31 Jan. 2018
-
The theatre was one of those single-screen places any schmuck with a camera could rent out and show his movie for a weekend.
—
Emma Cline,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2019
-
Trump, in his mind's eye, is also a tough guy -- a big, imposing figure who isn't just some schmuck in a suit.
—
Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2018
-
All of that is hard for this schmuck to process — that people believe, or pretend to believe, because that’s what others do.
—
Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
16 May 2022
-
So, as per usual, you, Joe Sixpack, the poor schmuck, in this case, the soda drinker, will foot the bill for their constant need of government to spend money.
—
Randy Blaser,
chicagotribune.com,
24 May 2017
-
That holds true for Oscar-winning astronauts with boxes full of Super Bowl rings, let alone schmucks like the rest of us.
—
Mike Duff,
Car and Driver,
22 Feb. 2020
-
In the heated race to see who can be the state's most secretive schmuck, Governor Rauner made moves last week to challenge his old pal, Mayor Rahm.
—
Ben Joravsky,
Chicago Reader,
6 Apr. 2018
-
Chris Sullivan is a surprise standout as Joe, a cranky addict who keeps relapsing—a schmuck with a streak of pathos.
—
Anthony Lan,
The New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2021
-
If Emma Thompson fails to show up for the party, there are a thousand celebrities ready to take her place, to say nothing of ordinary schmucks.
—
Kevin D. Williamson,
National Review,
29 Dec. 2019
-
Someone needs to tell that schmuck to stop using his Twitter account to conduct diplomacy with North Korea.
—
Brian Porreca,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 June 2017
-
Less hooray for those regretful schmucks who unknowingly evaded wealth giving up their bitcoin for a few bucks or a loofah.
—
Alexander Stoklosa,
Car and Driver,
13 Dec. 2017
-
Words: squirt, passion, caress, schmuck, euphoric, champagne (Kenny misses it by a hair), boudoir (Iggy spells as bordeaux?), façade (butchered), etc.
—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
19 June 2017
-
The upright citizen—or, viewed from another angle, the beleaguered schmuck—in charge of producing the report is a staffer named Dan Jones (Adam Driver).
—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
15 Nov. 2019
-
Yes, Kendall did pass out in the pool, but Comfry apparently rescued him, because the schmuck can’t even manage to have a dramatic death, rather than another reason for the rest of the family to look down on him.
—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
13 Dec. 2021
-
Wilkerson believed that a red (not a schmuck) worked behind every Underwood in Hollywood.
—
Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Oct. 2022
-
Even a schmuck like Manners can read some Stanislavsky, bring it clumsily into rehearsals, and, unwittingly, spark the beginnings of a revolution.
—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
26 Nov. 2021
-
With all due respect to Osmosis Jones, few filmographies have aged worse than the Farrelly brothers’, to whom the pinnacle of comedy is located at roughly the same height as some schmuck’s scrotum stuck in a zipper.
—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
20 May 2021
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'schmuck.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
