sad sack
An incompetent or inept person.
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Born ~1920 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
Lol! Actually its pretty fun triggering you idiots. None of you sad sack fuckers even live in Maine is the funniest part.
Just a sad sack of shit narsicist
doesn’t have a zero tolerance approach to anti-semitism when it comes to his allies (sycophants) in his own patty. completely unserious, opportunistic sad sack of man
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An incompetent or inept person.
“Lol! Actually its pretty fun triggering you idiots. None of you sad sack fuckers even live in Maine is the funniest part.”
“Lol! Actually its pretty fun triggering you idiots. None of you sad sack fuckers even live in Maine is the funniest part.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
“doesn’t have a zero tolerance approach to anti-semitism when it comes to his allies (sycophants) in his own patty. completely unserious, opportunistic sad sack of man”
“Super Sad” takes as its Romeo and Juliet, its Tristan and Iseult, a middle-aged sad sack named Lenny Abramov and a much younger beauty named Eunice Park.
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