Example Sentences

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And it's sort of funny, but he's also saying, "If I'd stayed here, I'd be just a shmuck like you, and look at me now!"

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2022

“He saw the old lady made coffee and cake and the shmuck rides off.”

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2016

Photograph: PR The contemporary is generally about a young man who is a jerk, a loser or a shmuck.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2010

For many actors, not looking like a shmuck is a 9-to-5 job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or, alternatively, you poor, sad shmuck, you can walk 2,169 miles through mountains and wilderness to Maine.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson