nabob
Example Sentences
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This doesn’t sound like a con artist or a relentlessly negative nabob.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021
In the words of the inimitable Spiro Agnew, Mr. Reilly, you are a “nattering nabob of negativism.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2018
In 1992 Manchester City was owned by the Football Association nabob and hi-fi entrepreneur Peter Swales.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2017
Jaffrey starred in his first major Indian film two years later, appearing as a chess-obsessed nabob in The Chess Players, which also featured Richard Attenborough as a British general.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2015
Her ancestor was a hog-stealer and a hobo; but Beanblossom's ancestor was a Governor and a nabob from way back.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
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