Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being schlubby.
With Chevy Chase, whose caricature of suburban schlubbiness is starting to look like less of a caricature, plus Beverly D’Angelo and Dana Hill.
1985 August 20, “Film strips”, in Owen Gleiberman, compiler, The Boston Phoenix, page 422 more examples
With a special talent for mad, flashing stares, blistering riffs of profanity and scatological schlubbiness, [Jack] Black has for years been the go-to guy for anyone casting the role of an unhinged co-worker or a bong-toting roommate.
2003 September 28, Josh Rottenberg, “Jack Out Of The Box”, in The New York Times Magazine, page 38He has absolutely no hair and always smiles and dresses impeccably in Thomas Pink shirts and the subtlest of suspenders, but, because of a certain schlubbiness of build, despite fastidious behaviors and careful courtesy, he always seems a bit rumpled up.
2005, Martin Kihn, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, Warner Business Books, →ISBN, page 4
Origin
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