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a dirty or sloppy person a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers

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Recent Examples of slob There were a few pictures of him by the paparazzi that were in London, walking out of a club, not having shaved, looking like a slob. Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025 Reyes is in no shape for the task, having devolved into a drunken, Hawaiian shirt-wearing slob with a bad bleach job. Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025 Things got particularly ugly during 2016 presidential debates when he was asked to defend referring to women as fat pigs and slobs. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025 Delaney manages neighbor guy’s evolution from boorish slob to kind-hearted lover with ease, and Hoffman radiates a cool charisma as G. Sissy Spacek is predictably wonderful as Molly’s mother Gail, whose guilt over her daughter’s molestation led to a years-long estrangement. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slob
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Noun
  • Lisa and Jody are mad that Larsa was a jerk at Jody’s birthday party.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 June 2025
  • Based on my experience, labeling someone a contrarian is just an extremely polite way of calling out a person for being a jerk who’s obsessed with the sound of their own voice.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Winners can pick up their claim forms in person at more than 23,000 California Lottery retail partners, but are also allowed to fill out a form online.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • This contrast shows how the same event can feel empowering to one person and limiting to another. 2.
    IESE Business School, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Few on TV ever have portrayed the everyman better, though with his characteristic modesty, Wendt always directed plaudits to the show’s writers.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
  • Told backwards, the film ostensibly guides us through the painful and rewarding life of everyman Chuck Krantz (played by Tom Hiddleston, Jacob Tremblay, and Benjamin Pajak at different points in the film).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Six men were inside a 2018 GMC Sierra pickup truck at the time of the shooting.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2025
  • While conditions for the athletes were atop the concern list, Carlos Alcaraz, the two-time defending men’s singles champion, made sure patrons at Centre Court were also taken care of in the heat.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • With the new minimum in place, a full-time worker in the nation's capital will earn an additional $727 in annual wages, on average, according to the EPI's calculations.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 27 June 2025
  • On Tuesday, a Red Cross worker told the Star-Telegram that a few people had stopped by to cool down and get information.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.
    cleveland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Police brought in hundreds of law enforcement personnel with dogs, armored carriers, horses and helicopters that circled overhead.
    Maryclaire Dale, Marc Levy and Michael Rubinkam, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
  • While the fan messages did make the guys laugh, a lot of it was thanks to their ribbing of each other and themselves.
    Anna Chan, Billboard, 26 June 2025
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  • Also, this was not a good week for billionaires as a socialist Muslim won a long-shot victory in the NYC Democratic primary, partly on the promise to raise taxes among the highest income earners, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos starred in a clown show wedding in Venice.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2025
  • Ayanna Pressley, another blow-in-drifter (from Chicago), pole vaulted from the City Council clown show to the U.S. House.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025

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“Slob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slob. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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