They treated us as if we were a bunch of rubes. rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time
Recent Examples on the WebOnce Internet shopping arrived, customers had instant access to product specs and competitive pricing; only a rube buys a Chevy Silverado without Googling the dealer’s cost. Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 Being a rube, though, Lucien cannot carry off the performance. Kyle Smith, WSJ, 9 June 2022 Red has utter disdain for Jerry, looking at him as a rube who exists only to help maintain Red’s place at the top of the pyramid. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2022 Tom, that ineffectual rube from Minnesota who swallowed his own semen at his bachelor party. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021 Thalberg robbed the Marx Brothers of their anarchy and Keaton of his elegance, turning him, as Stevens complains, into a mere stock rube figure. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 Macdonald liked to portray himself as a rube from small-town Canada, yet could conjure opinions on such matters as the merits of competing Proust translations.New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021 The whole thing took on a grifter-and-rube dynamic at the worst moment. Joe Delessio, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2021 Salt was my friend, too, because to undersalt something is to be a rube.Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021 See More