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

After being treated like a rube by the Big Apple cops and getting stalled on his assignment, he bluffs his way into taking custody of the prisoner.

From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Judd, although he had been called a rube had become a great favorite and very popular at Bartlett.

From Over the Line by Sherman, Harold Morrow