Meanings
comparative more schmucky · superlative most schmucky · alternative shmucky
- derogatoryslangCharacteristic of a schmuck.
[Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.
1971, Jules Feiffer's screenplay for Mike Nichols's film Carnal Knowledge1 more example
I think their principles are very admirable, and Jains, I mean, all I can say, Martha, I don’t know every Jain in the world and I’m sure there are some real schmucky Jains, but I just know that they are, are highly, generally, highly respected and known for being really upstanding people because if you did take these principles to heart and lived by them I think you would be, you know, we’re none of us are perfect but I think it would lead you...
2015, 1:06:13 from the start, in Believe It or Not - Jainism, Rabbi Gail Nord, YouTube: Gail Nord
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