rube
Example Sentences
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If you have been investing since your 20s, you’re hardly a rube where your portfolio is concerned.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
The character of Ben initially has a condescending attitude toward Quentin, assuming he is going to be a kind of rube.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022
After being treated like a rube by the Big Apple cops and getting stalled on his assignment, he bluffs his way into taking custody of the prisoner.
From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2021
"There isn't such a tremendous scope for the poetic, when a rube wiggles out of his clothes right in the pulpit, you might say!"
From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch
Vocabulary lists containing rube
Inherit the Wind
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Water for Elephants
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