"schlubby" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1974, Genevieve Stuttaford, “A Short Review of the Magazine Reviewers”, in Publishers Weekly, volume 206, number 19, New York, N.Y.: F[rederick] Leypoldt, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 1",
          "text": "It's a wasted review copy, sending “schlubby” nonfiction to Eliot Fremont-Smith at New York magazine or a book by William Buckley to Rolling Stone […]",
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          "ref": "1992 June 29 – July 6, Phoebe Eaton, “The Cool World: Table Dancing, Slalom Shots, and Other Strange Rites of the Night”, in Edward Kosner, editor, New York, volume 25, number 26, New York, N.Y.: K=III Magazine Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50",
          "text": "Except for Barry Diller eating steak and Diane Von Furstenberg picking at his frites, the room at the top is still empty at 9:30 p.m. On the ground floor, the chic and the schlubby are slowly rendering the bar invisible.",
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          "ref": "2003 September 15, Michael Wolff, “Candidate.com”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-21",
          "text": "In fact, the Internet, for political if not commercial causes, turns out to be a way to efficiently reach people whose very engagement (even overengagement) separates them most from ordinary zhlubby citizens.",
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          "ref": "2005, Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt, “The Fifth Commandment: Don’t Wear Your Breakup out into the World”, in It’s Called a Breakup because It’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, part 2 (The Breakover), page 238",
          "text": "[P]ut on your schlubbiest clothes, dab on some pimple cream, and go to the grocery store. […] Don't start your days in the hole. Besides, you never know when the new Mr. Right will come along. …",
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          "ref": "2008, Lynn Phillips, “Self-loathing Dabbles in the Arts”, in Self-loathing for Beginners, Santa Monica, Calif.: Santa Monica Press, part IV (The Self-loathing Elite), page 170",
          "text": "Just thinking about ballet makes most people feel schlubbier and more sluglike when they shuffle out of their bedrooms in the morning or slide under the barstool at night.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 February 10, Lynn Hirschberg, “Breaking through”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2011-05-12",
          "text": "Although [Seth] Rogen had his artistic breakthrough with “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” two years ago, he achieved mass appeal this year as a funny, lovable, shlubby every-guy who won the beautiful blonde.",
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          "ref": "2009 February 4, Brad Stone, “In campaign wars, Apple still has Microsoft’s number”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2019-01-05",
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        "Clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward; unattractive or unkempt."
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        "(chiefly US, informal) Clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward; unattractive or unkempt."
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          "text": "Except for Barry Diller eating steak and Diane Von Furstenberg picking at his frites, the room at the top is still empty at 9:30 p.m. On the ground floor, the chic and the schlubby are slowly rendering the bar invisible.",
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          "text": "[P]ut on your schlubbiest clothes, dab on some pimple cream, and go to the grocery store. […] Don't start your days in the hole. Besides, you never know when the new Mr. Right will come along. …",
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          "text": "Just thinking about ballet makes most people feel schlubbier and more sluglike when they shuffle out of their bedrooms in the morning or slide under the barstool at night.",
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