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Examples of schlemiel
schlemiel
A schlemiel may be, must be, grievously acted upon by the always malevolent world.
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Just as tiresome as the regulation egoist is the regulation schlemiel.
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The protagonist is an obsessed schlemiel until he turns out to be right.
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Anyone defining schlemiel and schlimazel should consult a Yiddish lexicon or A New Leaf.
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In real life he is a suburban dude and a sort of all-round schlemiel.
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Everything was disintegrating, yet here was man, the poor schlemiel, running around with his glue and tape.
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Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel.
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The schlemiel, Brook explains, is an anti-hero in whose humiliation the audience finds supreme pleasure.
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Despite his best efforts at being something else other than that, he was the schlemiel who gets the soup spilled on him.
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- (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler
- This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of American English. Spelling of some of these Yiddish language words may be variable (for example, schlep is also seen as shlep, schnoz as shnozz, and so on). ...
- A loser or a fool; A person who is clumsy or who hurts others emotionally
- Bumbler, one who "can't do anything right"
- Inept bungler, someone who is easily victimized
- An inept clumsy person; a bungler; a dolt (from Yiddish shlemil or shlimil from the Hebrew "Sh'aino Mo'eil" literally ineffective)
