yokel

Example Sentences

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John Noakes called her awful: "She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her."

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

"Ted Lasso" was introduced as a the story of a out-of-place Kansas yokel in Britain, with Jason Sudeikis playing Ted as the kind of man aware of the assumptions people will make about him.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021

The film, a direct ancestor of The Hudsucker Proxy, follows a dumb but sweet yokel played by Dick Powell as he convinces the executives at several companies that he’s some kind of a marketing genius.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2021

A Missoula yokel is on hand to puncture that claim as out of touch — a fair gripe, and Martin wants us to know he knows it.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

Dawn Madden did a spazzo yokel voice at the tractor.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell