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
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
It attempts to coalesce the cleverness of the tyrant, the experience of the aristocrat, the wealth of the industrial nabob, and the aggregate momentum of the mass, into a humanitarian power.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
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