How to Use slob in a Sentence

slob

noun
  • Some poor slob got robbed.
  • If a dish didn’t have to be cleaned, then maybe the slobs would have an argument.
    Peter King, SI.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • But they were seated just across from two slobs, which spoiled the whole effect.
    Linda Fargo, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Feb. 2018
  • An exhibitionist and slob, who brought strange men to the house.
    New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • No one here has a fancy job, and everyone dresses like a slob.
    The New York Times, NOLA.com, 7 July 2017
  • In the spot, Mayfield is a semi slob and has an annoying habit of singing the Oklahoma fight song in his sleep.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2021
  • What is the best way to get delicious bites out of the intricate crevices of the lamb shoulder bones without looking like a slob?
    Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Laura was a slob who never picked up after herself or her son, did the dishes, or picked up a broom.
    Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Can the board really fine an entire group because one person is a slob?
    Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Being bit, scratched, while having to control some slob who hasn't showered in weeks is not fun either!
    Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
  • The trick to living in sweats without feeling (and looking) like a slob in the process is to style the staple with a little bit of consideration.
    Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 23 June 2017
  • Shed your reputation as the office slob by removing all the garbage from one corner of your home, and fielding work calls from there.
    Caity Weaver, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Much of it works charmingly, thanks to Mr. Mortensen’s improbable buoyancy: Tony is clearly a stout-hearted guy, as well as a slob and a jerk.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • 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, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Advice columns are always directed at some other slob (or jerk or wing nut).
    New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Along with the slob-ebrity, 2018 has given us another category of celebrity style-icon: the zaddy.
    Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
  • Seth Rogen is Fred Flarsky, a sweet-spirited slob and out-of-work advocacy journalist.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 2 May 2019
  • This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes.
    Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The apparently irresistible rise of the slob is hardly our most important problem.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Standards for cleanliness are not uniform, either; your exact habits could qualify you as an equal partner to a spouse with lower housekeeping standards, and a clean freak to a total slob.
    Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2021
  • Luis Carlos de la Lombana is an amiable straight shooter as the family doctor, and Alfonso Rey does nicely as the colonel’s cruelly complacent slob of a lawyer.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Oh, to peacefully live in chaos among the piles instead of, hypothetically, barking at the humans who live with me and begrudging everyone for being such slobs.
    Jen Hatmaker, Health.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • An art restorer, a divorced man, two former lovers, a neurotic woman and a slob struggle with relationships in London.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • If Glossier makeup is for women who don’t need makeup, then scumbro fashion is for men who don’t need logical colorways and tailoring, who are privileged and/or famous enough to dress like a teen slob.
    Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 29 June 2018
  • The game takes pains to show mass protests over the unemployment rate spiking past 35 percent, never really acknowledging that even unemployed slobs can apparently afford to buy a capable android to cater to their every whim.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 24 May 2018
  • 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
  • That’s what makes Sideways, whose wine-touring protagonist is actually a middle-aged slob, so relatable—and hilarious.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018

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