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

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

Salabert, on the contrary, loved to flourish his millions in the face of the world, and play the nabob, at the smallest possible cost of course.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando