Example Sentences

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Endorsing schmucks you've never met in your life and couldn't care less about and then spreading some cash around.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021

The not-exactly-hidden subtext being, "that won't happen again, schmucks".

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2019

“And we’re the schmucks that are paying for the whole thing.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2018

They could have been any two billionaire schmucks taking an evening stroll through Manhattan.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2018

Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play a couple of schmucks who manage to make big bucks in the international arms trade in the fact-based 2016 dark comedy "War Dogs."

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2017