yokel

How To Use yokel In A Sentence

• Maybe you think we're being a little hard on the people of this town, by calling them yokels and inferring that they're nothing more than a bunch of undereducated rubes.
• Medved represents the uninformed and moralistic yokel given a bullhorn — in other words, a doofus for the doofuses to latch onto. Medved Denied His Meds : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
• Well, guess what kids, if the beef industry goes, it's not just going to be the country yokels that are out of a job.
• We should yerk the yokel of a Yankee with the knout.
• Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of. Watershed
• I once read that a good method is to round your lips & try to say 'ee' - that gets pretty close to it - [[User: Ro Thorpe | Ro Thorpe]] 00: 01, 28 November 2008 (UTC): Yup, I remember poor Mr. Neumeister (such a French name!) telling the poor yokel to do it that way (I think), to no avail. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
• I told her I appreciated the vote of confidence, but I know what happens when I sit at a table of genuinely funny people, not family members and appreciative yokels: I become more solemn than Lincoln in his tomb.
• People like you preach tolerance and openmindedness all the time but when it comes to middle America you think we're all evil and stupid country yokels who need your political alignment.
• My Bloody Valentine is as blunt as its serial killer's pickaxe, which is used to kill more small town yokels than I'd ever dreamed possible. Portland Mercury