moneyed

Example Sentences

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Mr. Wright keeps tossing in would-be funny denunciations of the moneyed elites that are about as spicy as a bowl of sour cream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The couple are part of a growing number of moneyed globetrotters who are choosing to relocate to the northern Italian city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

“I understand what it looks like,” he says of a song that uses blistering guitars to paint a picture of moneyed comfort.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

The image is a memorable one — a young kid finally free of the perceived trappings of his moneyed existence — but there are definitely other ways that scene can be understood.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2025

When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie