leisured
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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
An idyllic, leisured summer is in prospect, with a little cataloguing and venturing out with Perlman to view those classical statues that have been recovered from the lake.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2017
The Fadimans led the sort of leisured, cushioned existence one reads about in novels by Louis Auchincloss and Evelyn Waugh.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017
Machiavelli wanted ruthlessness to be used for political ends - achieving a self-governing republic - whereas Ripley is ruthless in order to achieve purely personal ends - an affluent, leisured life in beautiful surroundings.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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