Sentence examples for shmoose from inspiring English sources

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shmoose

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Alt form schmooze

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All the little shmoos.

Eventually the shmoos committed suicide for 2 reasons.

Now, Mr. Capp feels the times are safe for satire, and, in his comic strip, wants to explore his uneasiness with current foreign aid policy, through the activities of shmoos.

He discusses why shmoos have reappeared in his comic strip, "Li'l Abner".

But there are also little figures like African mud men, with sticks and roots sprouting from their heads; Americans of a certain age might think of shmoos.

She was a bit like one of Al Capp's Shmoos, in "Li'l Abner," designed to please people at any cost.

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Listening to Grandinetti, I might have thought that Amazon's role in this transformation was that of a literary nonprofit that existed to make authors happy by delivering their books to as many readers as possible while keeping online gaming at bay — that is, by being a shmoo for book people.

"He resembles a very, very smart shmoo — he only wants to serve, to make you happy".

There were robes, ragged turbans, daggers and even a certain dusty romance — dark eyes peeking from a Shmoo-like burqa.

The studio might take a cue from the cartoonist Al Capp, who twisted the offending word into shmoo, which was a further revision of the euphemism schmo.

His character the shmoo — a creature that supplied almost all material needs — was a marketing bonanza by itself.

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