slob
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And perhaps the best part of all: Nobody can call me a slob again—if I don’t backslide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
I knew I was being absurd, a slob, a partial embarrassment, but I didn’t care.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
She’s not a slob or loser; she’s a writer.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
Samuel, a nice failed writer and slob, turns his life around one day by stepping in front of a car in “Big Gold Brick.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
She probably knew what a phony slob he was.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
“When I think of 20-year-old men, I think of open ramen containers, like, underwear, beds unmade and just like slobs basically. I have three younger brothers and I think of slobs,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
If Season 1 was great, Season 2 is even better, thanks to the expansion of the main characters’ back stories — which in turn throws the good-versus-evil, perfect folks-versus-regular slobs plot into even sharper relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
Every one of its 884 pages is an absolute joy to read, and no book is more deeply comforting to neat freaks—or inspirational to slobs.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
If it was the snobs against the slobs, I knew which side I was on.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
We slapped our hands together as hard as we could and got our slobs mixed up real good, then waved them in the air so they’d dry.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
