Words similar to yokel

Example sentences for: yokel

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The tall, skinny Norton bobs and slits his eyes and twists his mouth into a yokel sneer and is wholly impossible to dislike, even when his character keeps crazily upping the ante.
A roomful of self-portraits, with changing identities worthy of Cindy Sherman (van Gogh as citified dandy in pink fedora; van Gogh as country yokel in straw hat), implies a sort of plural van Gogh, a chameleon personality hard to pin down.
Why does a belligerent yokel (John Savage) want to bust Garret's head?
Streep should be awarded a rubber chicken for irradiating us with her yokel devotion in One True Thing (1998), but in Dancing at Lughnasa she goes a long way toward winning back her good (well, pretty good) name.