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Examples of rube
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A priceless rube, Abner was so gullible that he could be tricked by a small child.
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Tim Lippe, as played by rising comedy star Ed Helms, is a rube of the highest order.
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You may be surprised at what this willfully ignorant rube learned in school.
From the science.time.com
Rube coached all three sports at Robinson and took the football team to new horizons.
From the post-gazette.com
I'm a moderate to conservative American, and I'm embarrassed by this rube.
From the economist.com
At least one preview audience actually cheered this urban variant on that rube farce.
From the time.com
Democrats are determined to get a health bill, and Mr. Reid is no rube.
From the online.wsj.com
He has been called the next Mandela and the next Mugabe, a black Jesus and a crass rube.
From the theatlantic.com
He played harmonica and guitar and, between numbers, peddled rube humor.
From the time.com
- Yokel: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- Rubes is a syndicated newspaper single panel cartoon created by Leigh Rubin in 1984.
- A diminutive of the male given name Reuben
- A person of rural heritage; a yokel; An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person
- A naive or clueless person, but not necessarily a prime. Sometimes this term's used to describe any non-Cager.
- Carnival term for towners or townspeople who become sideshow audience/customers
- Bumpkin, easy mark (Pick-Up, 127)
