Sentence examples for slob from inspiring English sources

'slob' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something as carelessly or slovenly dressed, or someone who is lazy or unkempt. For example, "He was a real slob - his clothes were wrinkled, his hair was a mess, and he never seemed to stay on top of his work."

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slob

noun

A lazy and slovenly person.

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Because, let's be honest here, wearing oversized or "boyfriend" clothes does make you look like a slob: I know it, you know it and the people flogging you the clothes certainly know it.

IS THE all-American TV slob an endangered species?

What is to become of this spiteful, self-destructive, wizened old slob, viewers might ask.

Prosecutors may charge him with selling a smaller amount if he agrees to "reel some other poor slob in", as Ms Dougan puts it.

Nick Nolte played a middle-aged bearish slob of a painter desperate to keep his restless paramour-disciple (Rosanna Arquette) from moving out.

Dyson V6 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner: £299.99, dyson.co.uk Again, don't actually tell Dad he's a slob and needs to clean up after himself, but a Dyson is a highly appealing vacuum and is gadgety enough to make him want to keep things tidy.

Producer Larry Gordon was a "loudmouth", and Joel Silver "a fat slob".

In Knocked Up, Katherine Heigl played an ambitious control freak who was impregnated by a slob she didn't like; in her new film, she plays an ambitious control freak who's raising a baby with one.

My mother was a fastidious housekeeper; my dad was a slob.

The "cool girl" pretence lasts for the first couple of years of their marriage and suddenly Nick, with his "my wife doesn't understand me" complaints, finds himself with a person who not only doesn't like certain kinds of sex, food, video games etc but also makes certain demands and expects her husband not to be a slob.

Shaw's next persona likely had him praying to God for his robes and chants back, as he was repackaged as Bastion Booger, a slob who took great delight in, well, being a slob.

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