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
But when he auditioned for his first record contract, the big Mexico City labels treated him like a rube.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2021
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
A feller with brains can always do that in these big rube towns like New York.
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
