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slob

[slob] / slɒb /
NOUN
a slovenly or boorish person
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And perhaps the best part of all: Nobody can call me a slob again—if I don’t backslide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

I’ll chuck on slob clothes — a track suit and some Birkenstocks — and go off to Blue Bottle and get a coffee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

She stars as Gracie Hart, a socially awkward F.B.I. field agent and unapologetic slob who finds herself unexpectedly glammed-up for a dangerous undercover assignment at a high-profile beauty pageant.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

I’m far from a slob but I’m definitely not like her.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2022

When the day came, there was a difference about the salt marsh and the slob.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

And if his sons are slobs, they’re not going to shape up just because you’re working hard to keep the house clean.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2022

“When I think of 20-year-old men, I think of open ramen containers, like, underwear, beds unmade and just like slobs basically. I have three younger brothers and I think of slobs,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

If it was the snobs against the slobs, I knew which side I was on.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019

They were slobs, but they still had a head start on me.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan




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