Sentence examples for schnook from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who is easily taken advantage of.
- He's just a schnook. She's obviously using him but he keeps coming back for more abuse.
The psychologist Ellen Langer once had subjects engage in a betting game against either a self-assured, well-dressed opponent or a shy and badly dressed opponent (in Langer's delightful phrasing, the "dapper" or the "schnook" condition), and she found that her subjects bet far more aggressively when they played against the schnook.
Stars, as John Lahr has said, were proof that the free-enterprise system worked — some schnook from nowhere got to the top, and wasn't that great?
This is called the "illusion of control": confidence spills over from areas where it may be warranted ("I'm savvier than that schnook") to areas where it isn't warranted at all ("and that means I'm going to draw higher cards").
And then I'll sell the company, buy my house in Hollywood and buy my house in New York and marry some poor Jewish schnook who will raise my children, and life will be great.
Langer didn't say that it was only arrogant gamblers who upped their bets in the presence of the schnook.
I wanted to be the schnook.
As the oil price continued to soar he called the Arab producers "schnooks", earning yet another rebuke; but he didn't care.
In some circles it is considered smart to see the marriage of art and money as, if not fabulous, at least very adult; only pathetic schnooks do not.
Elsewhere, she airs her opinions more directly, as when referring to a group of protesters as "a bunch of schnooks".
Robbins's notes on the show repeatedly sound his contempt for representations of Jews as "lovable schnooks," and his collaborators shared his concerns.
For a while, I found myself offering the least acceptable amount – $5 here, $10 there – if only because I felt sorry for the poor schnooks who got saddled with that thankless job.
