What's the difference between rube and ruse?

Rube


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only with follicular walls and capsules of corpora lutea was the step linear dose-response relationship similar to that shown by the uterine rube obtained by alternating current stimulation.
  • (2) The coin lesions of 361 patients who were at our diagnostic ward from 1968 to 1970 were defined according to Rube [1967].
  • (3) This conclusion, however, is opposite to that derived from experiments with partial neuromuscular blockade which demonstrated the importance of central command in determining the cardiovascular response to static exercise (Leonard, Mitchell, Mizuno, Rube, Saltin & Secher, 1985).
  • (4) In deciding not to hand control of his business to outside executives, Trump had created a “Rube Goldberg” device – an unnecessarily complicated machine for solving a simple problem – that was unlikely to serve its purpose, said Henning.
  • (5) From a total of 73 cultures isolated from glucose-1-phosphate roll rubes, only 15.1% were presumptively identified as Bacteroides species.
  • (6) That whole ‘trust me’ thing can be very debilitating, when you go, ‘I think I know how this can play.’ And also when you get a piece of material like [Gone Girl], it’s a lot of faith on the part of Ben Affleck to come in and go ‘Okay, I’m the rube.’” There’s no decision yet on his next feature.
  • (7) Small movies that will be great Listen up, you rubes.
  • (8) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
  • (9) We felt part of the momentum, rather than a parasite or a rube.
  • (10) By bringing them face to face, Gibson was addressing the tendency of any given generation to assume that “the inhabitants of the past are hicks and rubes, and the inhabitants of the future are effete, overcomplicated beings with big brains and weak figures.

Ruse


Definition:

  • (n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
  • (2) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
  • (3) It is a ruse in order to get a second opinion … It is simply going nowhere.
  • (4) The ruse provoked a response from MLSsoccer.com , for whom Andy Edwards wrote: Whatever your feelings on USA Soccer Guy, your feelings toward the SFA should go something like this: We're sorry we beat you 5-1 last year , and we're also sorry that you're still bitter about it.
  • (5) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients.
  • (6) One ruse is to promise marriage to wealthy foreigners.
  • (7) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
  • (8) To do so, right under the noses of an often violent state apparatus, they will adopt all sorts of ruses to keep their identity secret or at least partly masked.
  • (9) The film is poignant because the man is an undercover FBI agent posing as a government official who has lured Chapman to the meeting under the ruse of getting her to pass a fake passport to another "illegal" – a spy who has embedded themselves in America society, outside the protection of the Russian embassy.
  • (10) Elections are due in 2015, but no one expects anything other than the same old ruses from Lukashenko.
  • (11) A new report by the International Crisis Group, a respected thinktank, found that Syrian rebel groups were playing up their Islamist credentials by growing Salafi-type beards, for example, as a ruse to secure arms from these conservative Gulf-based donors.
  • (12) This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
  • (13) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients, including on the terrace.
  • (14) In this view, expression of concern for human rights is not just hypocritical but a ruse.
  • (15) When Seigner's Wanda forces Almaric's Thomas to wear women's clothes at the end of Venus in Fur , it is hard not to wonder if this is another example of both disguised memoirs and masochistic ruse.
  • (16) But they have got into general circulation by an elaborate ruse.
  • (17) Sometimes the ruse plays upon a person's desire to make a profit from an outlandish investment proposal.
  • (18) To "fix" the region's unfixable Holocaust history, an array of cunning ruses was brought into play.
  • (19) But the government has adopted a culture of secrecy, as well as legal and parliamentary ruses, to hide from the public the extent that the NHS is being put up for sale to private healthcare companies.
  • (20) They see it as a Remainer ruse to stay in the EU in all but name.

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