slob
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I used to be a bit of a slob, my friends and family will attest.
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
You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits?
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
“We kept talking about these tropes from ‘80s movies of slobs versus snobs,” and how it mirrored the mom-and-pop shop versus big business dynamic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
“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
Bart’s son “Brett” wrote an even more hurtful letter where he took pictures of our home during remodeling to illustrate the point that we are perpetual slobs.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2018
The only sounds were inside their heads — the moaning and wailing of the ghosts of all the poor slobs who had ever blundered onto Finsterwald’s property.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
