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
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
It was a gigantic and magnificent specimen, and proved to be the favourite elephant of the last nabob, which,447 like the minister himself, was reduced to eat the bread of charity.