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stumblebum

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Recent Examples of stumblebum As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact. —

Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018 The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests. —

Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015 From the mid-1960s through the early ’70s, my prime rooting years, the Yankees were a team of stumblebums not even redeemed by charm. —

James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017 Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details. —

James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017

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One year after the Academy bafflingly ignored his work in Sideways, Giamatti finally scored his first Oscar nomination for his purely entertaining performance as boxing manager Joe Gould in Ron Howard’s proudly old-fashioned Depression-era palooka drama.

— A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Sylvester Stallone's underdog tale about a struggling palooka given one shot at the heavyweight championship is a stirring sports movie with a level of charm and sweetness that dissipated in the rounds (and rounds) of sequels that followed.

— Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 July 2019