rube
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I was correct, I guess; here I am, being paid to write about feeling like a rube.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
A feller with brains can always do that in these big rube towns like New York.
From Alex the Great by Arthur William Brown
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
I feel like I am painting all of us — my immediate family, my friends and me — as ignorant rubes, but I don't think we are.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
Zaslav knows there are plenty of rubes just like me probably willing to pay.
From The Verge ● Aug. 27, 2022
With the exception of a handful of men in front of the sideshow—probably waiting to be led to Barbara—all the rubes are in the big top.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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