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

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 discomfited nabob appealed to Colonel Pattee for redress, who sent Adjutant Wright back to quiet the boys.

From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by McBride, R. E.