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

A new kind of leisured prosperity is in evidence with an estimated 30 million Brazilians considering themselves to have entered the middle classes in the past decade.

From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013

And the centerpiece, “A Month in the Country,” is a suspenseful tragicomic story about love and jealousy among vividly characterized individuals of the 19th-century leisured middle class.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2012

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez