yokel

Example Sentences

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John Noakes called her awful: "She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her."

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

"Ted Lasso" was introduced as a the story of a out-of-place Kansas yokel in Britain, with Jason Sudeikis playing Ted as the kind of man aware of the assumptions people will make about him.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021

“Hilter” plans to run for a minor office in a local election and gives a speech from a balcony to an audience of three children and one yokel with a straw hat.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2019

Forced to share office space in a taxidermy shop, Josh discovers just about every yokel cliche there is — some of it funny, some of it not even worth mentioning.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2017

When I first arrived in Mqhekezweni I was regarded by some of my peers as a yokel who was hopelessly unequipped to exist in the rarefied atmosphere of the Great Place.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela