How To Use Yokel In A Sentence
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He has a few too many disparaging references to ‘country yokels,’ and some of his remarks about women are needlessly chauvinistic.
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Not because they're a bunch of clodhopping yokels - well, not entirely - but because rabbits have the ability to destroy their precious island.
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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.
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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
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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
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So typical of these yokels to make such a tasteless error of judgment.
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In simple taste and homely inclination this much-travelled map was more simple and homely than the veriest yokel.
THE SEA FARMER
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He plays the country yokel in the butter ad.
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If he made some Americans scorn their boob or yokel neighbors, he made others - there's no way of numbering them - laugh at themselves.
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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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one of those muddle-headed, stupid yokels with little or no mind," who, according to the townsman, "moulder" in country villages "till they become demented.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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And I did exactly what any teenager would do after several pints of yokel-strength scrumpy and half a bottle of Russian paint-stripper.
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bible study and theological reflection are far too important to be left to the yokels who pick out a text and tell you what it means, with no sense of context, audience, history, continuity, etc., etc have you ever seen a real TEXT of the NT, in "uncial"?
Christianity Today does Q&A with Francis Collins on faith and science | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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the boy's empty yokel-like expression
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Some fuckin 'yokel wi' a big daud o'straw stickin 'oot his mooth.
Boiling a Frog
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He plays the country yokel in the butter ad.
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Well, maybe, while the yokels are slugging it out in the parking lot, the ‘have-mores’ can sneak in the back door and make off with the cash register.
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Their goal in feeding these people alarming lies was merely to harden opposition to Obama, to rouse up some street theater with the tea baggers, and to bring the yokels out to vote.
Strickland: 'I feel very secure here in Ohio'
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As if the world were his, he swung into the bar, where he found two yokels listening to the half-drunken lamentations of a middle-aged, plum-cheeked fellow in a shabby blue livery coatee with shabbier gilt buttons; and even while he was giving his order for a glass of mild, and
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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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
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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
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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.
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We should yerk the yokel of a Yankee with the knout.
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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
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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.
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Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alistair does his duty and reinstates the A11 dualling (conveniently forgetting the A47) but delays it for a year, thinking that will keep us yokels quiet.
A word in your ear, Alistair me old Mucker
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Often and often I have mused quietly amid scenes where gamblers of various sorts were disporting themselves -- in village inns where solemn yokels played shove-halfpenny with statesmanlike gravity; in sunny Italian streets where lazy loungers played their queer guessing game with beans; in noisy racing-clubs where the tape clicks all day long; on crowded steamboats when
Side Lights
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She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct.
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And I did exactly what any teenager would do after several pints of yokel-strength scrumpy and half a bottle of Russian paint-stripper.
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| Reply | Permalink golly, if one was a suspicious type, one would think this was highly orchestrated p.r. move to hoodwink those 'low info' voters and the cable news chattermonkeys. what's that word josh likes to use -- oh yeah, 'bamboozle' the yokels.
None Of Republican Moderates Who "Warned" Bush Voted For Iraq Bill
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The clothes makes him look like a slack - jaw yokel.
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A terribly nice and passionate man called Richard Jenkins from the Environment Agency is, as we sit hunkered comfily like a couple of slack-jawed yokels sucking long grass fronds on the banks of the River Wear, telling me some astonishingly interesting things.
From toxic sewer to natural haven, the river Wear's return from the dead
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Three, get a load of those tea-party yokels, with their funny hats and dysgraphic signage, and keep this in mind: They are opposed to the Democrats, but what they are really looking for is an alternative to the establishment Republicans, whom they distrust, with good reason, when it comes to the bottom-line question of balancing the budget and getting our fiscal affairs in good order.
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