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