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