bumpkin

How To Use bumpkin In A Sentence

• Look, you think I'm some kind of bumpkin fool, don't you? Lucifer's Hammer
• Whether you're a city dweller or a country bumpkin like myself, it seems that we all take pleasure in what nature holds for us.
• bumpkinly country boys
• Ministers think only a few country bumpkins are going to be affected, but what am I supposed to do?
• And if the mainstream media see tea partiers as bumpkins and racists, isn't this just more bad faith — characterizing people as ignorant or evil so as to dismiss them? A Referendum on the Redeemer
• The policeman rubbed down the country bumpkin, but found nothing suspicious.
• And that makes it more than serviceable for the normal run of fanatical ideologues, confirmed partisans and weak-minded bumpkins to make use of endlessly.
• Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
• Her comedy, one of the most-produced new plays in North America, has a stage-struck bumpkin named Will Shakespeare claiming credit for the scribblings of noblemen.
• A lourdeau, my dear brother, is as we might say a bumpkin, a clown, a clodpole: a fellow without grace, lightness, quickness; any gift of pleasing, any natural brilliancy: such a one as you shall see, when you desire, by looking in the mirror. Account of All That Passed on the Night on February 27th, 1757