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[ UK /jˈə‍ʊkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈjoʊkɛɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

How To Use yokel In A Sentence

  • He has a few too many disparaging references to ‘country yokels,’ and some of his remarks about women are needlessly chauvinistic.
  • Not because they're a bunch of clodhopping yokels - well, not entirely - but because rabbits have the ability to destroy their precious island.
  • Bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinseled dancers and old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
  • Together they would tramp the English country, compelling even the dullest yokels to hear the word of God ... discalced ... over hill, down dale ... telling stories of the saints and martyrs in remote inns The Altar Steps
  • Besides, most newspapers need some progressive viewpoints thrown into the mix - the letters to the editor pages generally contain mostly diatribes by some of the most ill-informed, preachifying yokels one can find short of sitting in my neighbor's living room! by OpEdNews - Diary: I Was Published in the MSM
  • So typical of these yokels to make such a tasteless error of judgment.
  • In simple taste and homely inclination this much-travelled map was more simple and homely than the veriest yokel. THE SEA FARMER
  • He plays the country yokel in the butter ad.
  • If he made some Americans scorn their boob or yokel neighbors, he made others - there's no way of numbering them - laugh at themselves.
  • This guy is crying but his party wined and dined these yokels for years and guess what? Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
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