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
He is “arrogant, free spending” and such a rube that he has an “$8 haircut.”
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
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
"Say, the rube can fight!" exclaimed Potts, surprised.
From Over the Line by Sherman, Harold Morrow
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
