rube
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In Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” Roy M. Cohn, trying to assuage an angry client he can’t get off the phone, offers theater tickets to a show he knows that this annoying rube will like.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Old meaning of hick: hayseed, rube, ill-educated person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
If you have been investing since your 20s, you’re hardly a rube where your portfolio is concerned.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025
"There isn't such a tremendous scope for the poetic, when a rube wiggles out of his clothes right in the pulpit, you might say!"
From Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris
But even these three rubes can tell Hao is hawking baloney.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
It’s weird to be paranoid or to feign paranoia as part of an elaborate performance to manipulate rubes.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2025
His denouement arrives when he accidentally tells his audience over a hot mic that they’re a bunch of witless, contemptible rubes; they turn on him and his popularity evaporates.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
Zaslav knows there are plenty of rubes just like me probably willing to pay.
From The Verge ● Aug. 27, 2022
“I’ll be fine. He won’t do anything with rubes around. You’ve got to go. Please.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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