nabob
Example Sentences
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His work quickly made him controversial among civic boosters, who dismissed him as a negative nabob who didn’t want the city to thrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2025
This doesn’t sound like a con artist or a relentlessly negative nabob.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021
The building was constructed precisely to overawe foreigners, and it is difficult not to feel small beneath the 10ft-tall painting of an Indian nabob that Lord Carrington had hung on the wall.
From BBC ● May 14, 2013
The nabob was "a controversial new species of grandee who made his fortune in India and returned home to enjoy his treasure".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013
My letter was to apparently the mercantile nabob of Leon, Don Miguel Obregon.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
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