slob

Example Sentences

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More recently, cartoonist Scott Adams satirized the attitude in a 1990s Dilbert comic strip that depicted office slob Wally taking an “in-cubicle sabbatical.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2022

It’s also a near-perfect way to tell someone you love that it’s time to stop living like a slob and do the dishes already.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2022

Roger Ebert called "Stripes," "an anarchic slob movie, a celebration of all that is irreverent, reckless, foolhardy, undisciplined, and occasionally scatological."

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2022

This charade is partly out of middle-class indoctrination and partly because I don’t want my mother to be right, but today, pretending that I am not an insomniac and a slob feels arduous.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2022

I wouldn’t exactly call him a slob, but sometimes he trails the outdoors inside with him and Mom has to follow behind him with a mop.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass