rube
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- n a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- Yet while Helms was portrayed as a racist, a red-baiter and a rube by liberals, he exploited their outrage with tactical brilliance, remaking modern political campaigning in the .
- There, a Canadian named Gordon Northcott (nicely played by Jason Butler Harner as a man who tries to hide his darkest impulses under the aw-shucks amiability of a Gary Cooper rube .
- He creates a Gotham City that looms like a rube's nightmare of Manhattan.