pooh-bah

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Recent Examples of pooh-bah This kind of surgical enhancement can still be frowned upon in the restoration world, decried as fakery by the pooh-bahs of all-original-everything. Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 13 July 2024 To Richardson-Merrell’s pooh-bahs, her scrutiny seemed like the dilatory work of someone who didn’t know how the game was played. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024 Like Joe Rogan, the carnivorous pooh-bah of this intellectual space, Brand appeared interested in teaching a certain kind of man how to be a certain kind of man, mining the tension between think-for-yourself riffs and listen-to-me conclusions. Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023 But the pooh-bahs in Brussels didn’t exactly rush to say yes. Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pooh-bah
Noun
  • Any frustration the Greek shipping magnate felt was understandable.
    Paul Taylor, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • Descendants of Mary Lily Kenan – Henry Flagler’s third wife – continue the tradition begun in 1895, when the railroad magnate built the Palm Beach Inn on the site to complement his nearby Royal Poinciana Hotel.
    Thomas Swick, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The man who once mocked piety had become a moral touchstone; the scold of American pretensions now dined with tycoons.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Some real estate tycoons, who are actively developing, have to fret over the cost of building materials.
    Dan Alexander, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Visit the Binnenhof, one of Europe’s oldest parliamentary buildings and stroll past Noordeinde Palace, the working palace of the Dutch king.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The heart king may not be pulling its full weight but might provide a discard.
    Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • Profitability—the point at which a film’s investors begin to see returns—is also of the utmost importance to studio bigwigs, sometimes to movie-lovers’ chagrin.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
  • On Ransom Canyon, Minka Kelly's Quinn vacillates between feelings for wealthy rancher and town bigwig, Davis Collins (Eoin Macken), and longtime crush, salt-of-the-earth rancher, Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel).
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Pooh-bah.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pooh-bah. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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