rubes in English

noun
1
a country bumpkin.
It's all about retailing efficiency, they tell us, as though we are gullible rubes who don't know that computers mean fewer retail clerks, more technological glitches, and much consumer frustration.
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1. Synonyms for Churls include bumpkins, chawbacons, clodhoppers, cornballs, countrymen, hayseed, hicks, hillbillies, provincials and rubes

2. Obama, who later scoffed that it would take a “magic wand” to get those rubes their jobs back, apparently never considered that Contemning people for problems you don’t have and won’t deign to solve is a great way to get yourself succeeded by somebody like Donald Trump.