leisured

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

As the excellent Sweet Life and Super Rich Kids attest, Ocean is a great observer of the sunny uplands of leisured youth.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

Many were students both ambitious for academic success and accustomed to leisured life in the sun.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez