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

A splendid staircase conducted to a council-room, adorned with a portrait of the late nabob, life-size, executed in London.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von