leisured
Example Sentences
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Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2021
For their part, the leisured gents asserted their superiority by making a public show of their leisure or, as Veblen put it, their “conspicuous abstention from labour.”
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2019
The airbrushed T-shirt, long consigned to the twin bastions of leisured Americana — malls and West Coast boardwalks — was “back.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2017
As in Austen’s novels, a busy underground stream of anxiety threatens to break the surface of leisured lives.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2016
Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
