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

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

My letter was to apparently the mercantile nabob of Leon, Don Miguel Obregon.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)