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as in jerk
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
he's easy enough to get along with when he's not being a loudmouthed slob
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as in person
a member of the human race
you just know some poor slob is going to get blamed for this mix-up
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as in everyman
an average or ordinary man
I don't know much about trust funds, as I'm just some poor slob who has to work hard for a living
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Recent Examples of slob
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
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
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
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Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slob
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No gasoline from water taxis, no jerk smoke from a beach shack, no sunscreen haze wafting off a catamaran day trip.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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But with Chase alternating between sunny tour guide and cagey sparring partner, Zenovich manages to surgically separate jerk from unconventional genius, as well as the wounded man underneath.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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Age has a way of mellowing a person, sanding away their rough edges, leaving only their essence.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
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This is something the person looking to be verified knows to be true, but the ZKP method relies on trust.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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The 50th anniversary of his Game 7 heroics was marked in 2010 by the unveiling — on Bill Mazeroski Way — of a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue of one of Pittsburgh’s greatest everymen, rounding the bases, on top of the world.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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There is no excusing his remarks about Childress, whose everyman, never-back-down persona is something with which many fans identify.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Four drive-by shootings Sunday night in Chicago within two and a half hours left one man dead and four people injured, police said.—
Madeline King,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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The body camera footage was obtained from the four officers who responded to a report of a man armed with a knife experiencing an apparent mental health crisis.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2026
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Aid workers are delivering food, water, shelter, and medical and mental health care, among other services.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Noah Nelson, a professor at the California Institute of the Arts and founder of immersive arts publication No Proscenium, said Actors’ Equity’s recognition of the Basement’s workers is a step in the right direction as the union welcomes more nontraditional units.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The billboards feature several animals killed by the rodenticide including a dog, cat, fox, eagle, owl, and hawk.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2026
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In ancient China, the eclipse was interpreted as a cosmic dragon or dog attempting to swallow the moon whole.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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But still, since September, you guys hit all time highs back then and your stock’s been down a little bit.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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You guys saw her every single day.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Mar. 2026
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Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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How did clowns become a protest symbol?—
Janet W. Lee,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Slob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slob. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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