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

The discomfited nabob appealed to Colonel Pattee for redress, who sent Adjutant Wright back to quiet the boys.

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by McBride, R. E.