hick

Example Sentences

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But I was a hick from the north of England.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

They’d all gone to art schools — Cooper Union and Cranbrook and Cleveland Institute of Art and Pratt and Parsons — and thought I was this hick.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Bird was “the hick from French Lick,” the aw-shucks guy from a small town in Indiana who often said he couldn’t run or jump.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2022

Long after serving in the White House, he remained loyal to President Johnson and disputed suggestions that the former president was a hick with little grasp of international affairs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2018

I could tell by her face, her tone, that I had somehow missed something important in what she’d said, and had again revealed myself as the small-town hick I often felt like around her.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth