schlub

noun

ˈshləb

variants or less commonly shlub

Synonyms of schlub next

slang

: a stupid, worthless, or unattractive person

Example Sentences

you're a complete schlub—you should do great around here

Recent Examples on the Web This film plays more like a working-class fable, the kind where a likable schlub achieves success through grit and determination. —

Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023 But Donal Logue is hardly a schlub. —

Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021 Here's a few things to know about Miami: These Hurricanes are no schlubs. —

Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2023 Johnson loves to play the schlub, despite his muscly stature and big personality, but this disaster drama marked the best of that character type, hear as a rescue helicopter pilot searching for his daughter in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California. —

Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 2 May 2022 But Douglas was middle-aged, graying, odd-looking, even a little jowly — by industry standards, practically a schlub. —

Vulture, 5 Apr. 2022 The singer’s eventual image as a chubby, jumpsuit-wearing schlub dependent on various pharmaceuticals to hold a tune is a caricature his manager inadvertently helped create. —

Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022 The last before that was some schlub named … (checks notes) … Woody Hayes. —

Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022 But there’s almost too much to explain, beginning with the idea that someone like Kat, even in the throes of heartache, would marry a schlub like Charlie without a prenup. —

John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022 See More

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