nabob

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

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.

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 Karl Ritter von Scherzer