slob

Example Sentences

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I’ll chuck on slob clothes — a track suit and some Birkenstocks — and go off to Blue Bottle and get a coffee.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

He’s a lout, he’s a slob, he’s a mess — and he is enormously fine company on the page.

From New York Times • May 20, 2023

It's an overt signal that the slob is actually a "genius" who spends too much time doing brilliant stuff in his head to care about how he looks.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022

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

She probably knew what a phony slob he was.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger