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

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

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 Palacio Vald?s, Armando