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
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
I am not a nabob, but I have my own fortune; and it is my own, without waiting for anybody to die.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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