rube
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I was correct, I guess; here I am, being paid to write about feeling like a rube.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
In this adaptation, Anna Bowden had been Cady’s defense attorney, and he’s no longer an illiterate rube but a successful restaurateur who was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Old meaning of hick: hayseed, rube, ill-educated person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
If you have been investing since your 20s, you’re hardly a rube where your portfolio is concerned.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
This kept the rube from football practice and Benz could again star against the seconds.
From Over the Line by Harold Morrow Sherman
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 ● Oct. 16, 2025
A serpent-tongued viper might call these true believers goobers, rubes, suckers, and dupes, but what good would it do?
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
Zaslav knows there are plenty of rubes just like me probably willing to pay.
From The Verge ● Aug. 27, 2022
Senate observers have long been accustomed to the Oxford-educated Kennedy’s Gomer Pyle act; if he choose to play to the rubes gallery, all we can say is bless his heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
With the exception of a handful of men in front of the sideshow—probably waiting to be led to Barbara—all the rubes are in the big top.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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