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

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

The nabob of the village came into the public room in the course of the evening—a farmer and former State senator.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.