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

But he cannot shake the suspicion that he has become a rube in a global economy run for the benefit of others.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

If I've got to be run down by a taxi let it be on Broadway, not on a rube trail.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy