Sentence examples for shmuck from inspiring English sources
'shmuck' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is informal and considered to be a slang term. It is typically used to refer to a foolish or annoying person. Example: "Why did you lend your car to that shmuck? He always ends up damaging it."
I always thought getting the kids to school on time was the issue, particularly on those mornings when, just as you're about to step out the door, they'd announce: "I have swimming", or "I have to dress as my favourite book today!" I'm a shmuck, a fool, an idiot.
I have an image of a glossy red leather banquette turning to deposit me into the bowels of the building, only to reveal an empty banquette ready to receive the next shmuck, I mean diner.
Naturally I wished I'd been there too, but the tinge of exclusion that followed the recollection of what I'd been doing that night – dinner with some shmuck whose name I can't even remember – was alleviated by the knowledge that, at that moment, Mick was not enhancing the value of his evening by boasting to Keith that "P was there".
The contemporary comedy is generally about a young man who is a jerk, a loser or a shmuck.
But his comeback was not without hitches: in an appearance on the front page of the New York Post on Wednesday under the headline "Shmuck", the tabloid said his outfit of a hat and ringlets similar to those worn by Hasidic Jews had "ignited a new round of outrage".
"I'm past fifty," Uncle Shmuck offers his skeptical nephew as a guarantee of wisdom.
I spied Debi Mazar in a sparkly white gown but nothing jazzed the audience quite like seeing Chuck Low, the realtor-turned-actor who played Morrie, the shmuck-on-wheels wig salesman and Lufthansa heist mastermind.
His friends, on the other hand, are perfectly free to remain losers, slobs, jerks and shmucks.
In two weeks … Edgar Wright powers up Scott Pilgrim Vs The World … Noomi Rapace is The Girl Who Played With Fire … In three weeks … Hoodie horrors pay a visit to Cherry Tree Lane … Steve Carell enjoys his Dinner For Shmucks … In a month … Kristen Stewart bunks off from Twilight with The Runaways … Werner Herzog asks My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done ….
And yet, to misquote his worship, I seriously doubt whether Sting cares in the slightest whether shmucks like Craig and us question his probity.
Blur are "habitual bandwagon jumpers"; Oasis "mindless northern bluff'; the Verve "shmucks" with "simpleton lyrics".
