leisure-class
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Enita, one of the leisure-class Sainted, provides ostensibly useful services to the working class in the last human city of Bulwark—she farms new limbs and organs for those who can’t afford medical care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
She was a leisure-class beauty who devoted her days to philanthropy and culture.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015
Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in its negative effects the tendency of the leisure-class discipline is not so unequivocally true to the fundamental canons of the scheme.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
In a nation where there is no leisure-class and no peasantry, this whole theory of exclusion is an absurdity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
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