nabob

Example Sentences

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This oilman here was not a nabob like Doheny, but his L.A. oil scandal was going on at the same time.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

This doesn’t sound like a con artist or a relentlessly negative nabob.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2021

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

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

Csanta had very little idea that he united in his own person the East Indian nabob, the Dey of Morocco, and the Russian prince, as likewise that it was he who had caused this uproar.

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór