rube
Example Sentences
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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
“He doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt of being this rube congressman and he is going to have to defend his positions.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 18, 2021
Meg was also a rube, from Hayward, Calif. We decided to learn the city by “walking the greens.”
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2021
You may be awkward; you may be a rube as they say; but you're a great scout just the same.
From Over the Line by Sherman, Harold Morrow
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.