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
“These guys, they must think we are an ignorant rube county,” said Christy Hubbard, who owns a home near the mining site.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022
As I edged up near him, reaching out for a magazine, he cast a cold, disdainful glance at me like the rube that's wise to the dangers of the great city.
From Miss Maitland Private Secretary by Bonner, Geraldine
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.