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
De Shields-Moon quickly found herself buying loads of clothes not to look like a rube in her new hometown.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023
But you don’t have to be a rube about it.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022
I'm the rube from the back-blocks, sure thing.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
