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rube

noun as in hick

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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.”

The first set of rubes were those rich GOP donors.

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The play’s snotty actors, meanwhile, clearly consider their foe a proletarian rube and airily patronize him.

And once in office, McConnell turned his back on the moderates to embrace Ronald Reagan and the conservative movement of evangelicals, rednecks, and rubes that was Reagan’s governing coalition.

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