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sad sack noun a miserable and depressing individual; an inept misfit US, 1942 Originally US military.- “He’s a sad sack, and that’s no mistake,” says Kerrigan. — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 217, 1949
- — Newsweek, p. 28, 8 October 1951
- Jimmy said now listen I used to be a sad sack myself until I met my wife Gloria who made me so happy[.] — William T. Vollman, Whores for Gloria, p. 75, 1991
- Some sad sack opens the show whining an anticensorship speech[.] — Chuck Eddy, Stairway to Hell, p. 71, 1991
- Scott the Engineer is the Sad Sack of our show. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 221, 1995
- A well-meaning sad sack who spirals dramatically downward — The USA Today, 19 October 2001
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