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nabob

noun as in bigwig

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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.

"Tata is too shrewd and too shy to be caught gloating about his successes like some territory-grabbing East India Company nabob," the journalist later wrote.

From BBC

This oilman here was not a nabob like Doheny, but his L.A. oil scandal was going on at the same time.

Blame it on that idiot Donald Trump if you want, but in fact our world's bad craziness predates that nattering nabob of narcissism.

From Salon

The vice president had a reputation for being President Nixon’s attack dog and skewering political opponents as “nattering nabobs of negativism,” “vicars of vacillation” and “pusillanimous pussyfooters.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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