slob
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"Aren't there more important things we should be talking about than if I dress like a slob?"
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 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
She’s not a slob or loser; she’s a writer.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
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
Finally Momma got sick of having slob all over her hand and gave up.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
“We kept talking about these tropes from ‘80s movies of slobs versus snobs,” and how it mirrored the mom-and-pop shop versus big business dynamic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
“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
Every one of its 884 pages is an absolute joy to read, and no book is more deeply comforting to neat freaks—or inspirational to slobs.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
If it was the snobs against the slobs, I knew which side I was on.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
The only sounds were inside their heads — the moaning and wailing of the ghosts of all the poor slobs who had ever blundered onto Finsterwald’s property.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
