slob
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I used to be a bit of a slob, my friends and family will attest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
She’s not a slob or loser; she’s a writer.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
I'm not a slob, but I am a maximalist, and my whole life, I have felt deep shame about it.
From Salon ● May 25, 2022
Samuel, a nice failed writer and slob, turns his life around one day by stepping in front of a car in “Big Gold Brick.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
I mean, me and Jermaine had always kept our room picked up, but our mother was a slob; she hated to clean.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
And if his sons are slobs, they’re not going to shape up just because you’re working hard to keep the house clean.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2022
“When I think of 20-year-old men, I think of open ramen containers, like, underwear, beds unmade and just like slobs basically. I have three younger brothers and I think of slobs,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
If it was the snobs against the slobs, I knew which side I was on.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
The ones who don't want to pay at the dump, or got dangerous chemicals, or think we're such slobs down here we won't mind another load of junk.
From "Seedfolks" by Paul Fleischman
