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Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
Nensi Dojaka, who came to study in London from Albania at the age of 17, has put her finger on designing a sophisticated way of exposing and covering the body that’s become an immediate hit with young women raring to put lockdown schlump behind them.
—Sarah Mower, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021
Savett stands 5-foot-7 and was unhappy with athletic shorts, designed for taller men, that hung beneath his knee, making him look like a schlump.
—Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
Nensi Dojaka, who came to study in London from Albania at the age of 17, has put her finger on designing a sophisticated way of exposing and covering the body that’s become an immediate hit with young women raring to put lockdown schlump behind them.
—Sarah Mower, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2021
Savett stands 5-foot-7 and was unhappy with athletic shorts, designed for taller men, that hung beneath his knee, making him look like a schlump.
—Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlump
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Lauren Goode: Basically no one looked like a bigger schlub.Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
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But Joel and Ethan invest in other characters’ stories more — specifically, Josh Brolin’s conflicted fixer and Alden Ehrenreich’s anxious young actor — leaving Clooney to ham it up pleasantly as a forgettable dolt. 14.Will Leitch, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
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That tension is central to the third season, in which Harington’s Sir Henry Muck—an old-money dolt with a hilariously accurate name who is a perpetual disappointment to his family—enlists the bank to help launch a green-energy company.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
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Burn After Reading delivers Brad Pitt in rare form: a bumbling blockhead who loves berry blast smoothies and sports an iPod strapped to his arm.Derek Scancarelli, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2023
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My annual Worst Biopharma CEO list is typically populated with blockheads and scoundrels.Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 19 Dec. 2023
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Under the Tories’ watch, the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street in London was occupied by a dyspeptic culture warrior (Theresa May), who was succeeded by a fustian blowhard (Boris Johnson), who begot an economic ignoramus (Liz Truss).Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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Don’t let demagogues and blowhards and ignoramuses tell you otherwise.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2024
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The task its creator, Oliver Selfridge, has set for the machine is to recognize letters like R, A, and T. Unfortunately, Pandemonium is somewhat of a dunce.John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
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Experienced seamen were in high demand at the time, and I’d been left with a bunch of landlubbers, green hands, and shore dunces.Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
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In recent episodes, Gene has again taken to criminal scheming, employing the help of Jeff, the Omaha schnook who recognized the Cinnabon manager as the high-profile Saul Goodman.oregonlive, oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
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Sosa has hired someone, a poor schnook named Julian Martinez, to carry his boombox from city to city, clubhouse to clubhouse.Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
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Who knew the know-nothing King in the North had capitalist ambition?Zoe Guy, Vulture, 2 July 2024
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That end would be a story not so different from the one told by Miles Davis of his encounter with a know-nothing politician’s wife at a White House reception.Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
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Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy.Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2016
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Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2016
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“Schlump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlump. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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