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
• Mormons are famously clean-living, which is both a great good and much scorned by slobs who can’t keep their lives in order.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024