RUBE Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

rube

noun

ˈrüb

as in hick

an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time

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Recent Examples on the Web Baron Cohen’s most famous creation, Borat, may be the most intricate of all Jewish masquerades: an English Jew disguised as a Central Asian rube, who speaks Hebrew disguised as Kazakh, while staging outrageous antisemitic stunts that expose, and mock, society’s latent Jew hatred. —

Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023 This is part of the GOP's plot to keep the rubes enflamed while the party continues to cut taxes for the billionaires and sets its sights on Social Security and Medicare. —

Randy Dotinga, Washington Post, 24 June 2023 Ominously for Team Fisher, those rubes in Vegas are starting to not buy the bullcorn. —

Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023 In Shucked, Cahoon’s character is now Peanut, the town philosopher — who comes across as a bit of a rube, but then spouts profound universal truths. —

Melinda Newman, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for rube

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