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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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.
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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
There were a few pictures of him by the paparazzi that were in London, walking out of a club, not having shaved, looking like a slob.
—Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 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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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
There were a few pictures of him by the paparazzi that were in London, walking out of a club, not having shaved, looking like a slob.
—Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 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
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 10 Jun. 2025.
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