Meaning of sad sack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An incompetent or inept person.
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2. A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
   US

Examples

“One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry⟳ out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.””

““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⟳.”

“Weary of his drab life with its nowhere job, failed marriage, boring girlfriend, and estranged teenage son, a middle-aged sad sack fakes his death, changes his identity, and hits the road.”

“We meet⟳ him as he's on his way out, taking the news with equal parts tantrum and sad-sack acceptance.”

“So Samantha, the A.I. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love⟳ in “Her,” felt like⟳ a futuristic revelation.”

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