Examples of slob in a Sentence
Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
The other daughter-in-law is a slob.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2021
The other is a slob.
—Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
One of his most recent slob-adoptees is Princess Olympia of Greece, whose neat blonde iteration is an enviable example of the style.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
And patriotic pageants that begin innocently turn violently real, feral and ruled by a drunken slob turned warlord.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
The only issue is that her 12-year-old daughter is a total slob and doesn’t know the definition of cleaning up after herself.
—Annie Lane, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2022
The apparently irresistible rise of the slob is hardly our most important problem.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 8 Jan. 2022
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Word History
Irish slab mud, ooze, slovenly person
1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Slob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slob. Accessed 1 Dec. 2023.
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