slob

Example Sentences

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I’ll chuck on slob clothes — a track suit and some Birkenstocks — and go off to Blue Bottle and get a coffee.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

It's an overt signal that the slob is actually a "genius" who spends too much time doing brilliant stuff in his head to care about how he looks.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022

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

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

I might be a slob but I kept the yard looking tidy because Dad allowed me to drive our big garden tractor with a mower attachment on the back.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos