schlub

variants also shlub
slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of schlub Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025 Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025 Lauren Goode: Basically no one looked like a bigger schlub. Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024 Why cast a hearing actor with tremendous charisma next to a deaf actor who is made out (in costuming, grooming and general deportment) to be a schlub? Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for schlub
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlub
Noun
  • The toilet does the heavy work automatically with an electromechanical system, so all the owner of said waste has to do is grab the sealed, odorless bag and drop it in the garbage, much like a mutt mitt.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 May 2025
  • Remember when this series started, the Nuggets were heavy underdogs, viewed as mutts.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The winners of the Round of 16 games advance to the quarterfinals, while the losers move on to the classification games for places 9-16.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
  • Lee’s sensitive, evolving turn as Gi-hun — deeply human amid the madness, paranoia and murder set in bright green and pink surroundings — has made the character the ideal litmus test for Hwang’s critique of an economic system designed to produce titanic winners and losers who face annihilation.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025

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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlub. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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