slob

Example Sentences

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He’s a lout, he’s a slob, he’s a mess — and he is enormously fine company on the page.

From New York Times • May 20, 2023

More recently, cartoonist Scott Adams satirized the attitude in a 1990s Dilbert comic strip that depicted office slob Wally taking an “in-cubicle sabbatical.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2022

It’s also a near-perfect way to tell someone you love that it’s time to stop living like a slob and do the dishes already.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2022

Roger Ebert called "Stripes," "an anarchic slob movie, a celebration of all that is irreverent, reckless, foolhardy, undisciplined, and occasionally scatological."

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2022

He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger