1
: a slovenly or boorish person
2
: an ordinary person
just some poor slob
Examples of slob in a Sentence
Some poor slob got robbed.
a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers
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If traditional sandwiches were greasy and chaotic, the province of children and cartoon slobs, wraps were tidy and sensible, the province of working women with slim hips and pin-straight hair.
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Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
There are a million ways to say that without calling someone a slob, which just has a totally different connotation.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 June 2024
Its subsidiary effect, as the journalist Alistair Cooke noted at the time, was to discourage curiosity by the young, creating a regime of cautious slobs.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025
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Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
There are a million ways to say that without calling someone a slob, which just has a totally different connotation.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 June 2024
Its subsidiary effect, as the journalist Alistair Cooke noted at the time, was to discourage curiosity by the young, creating a regime of cautious slobs.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2025
Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for slob
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“Slob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slob. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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