rube

Example Sentences

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Patriotism—even in 1943—strikes Hart as strictly for the rubes; Rodgers counters that “Oklahoma!” is oblique reassurance of “what we’re fighting for.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.

From Salon

As though his jury of peers — whom he likely considered hapless rubes — would surely agree that putting a “personal friend” of Oprah’s in prison was unthinkable.

From Salon

He is “arrogant, free spending” and such a rube that he has an “$8 haircut.”

From New York Times

His denouement arrives when he accidentally tells his audience over a hot mic that they’re a bunch of witless, contemptible rubes; they turn on him and his popularity evaporates.

From Salon