person of means
Example Sentences
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He is a person of means, sophistication and by all appearances he has the resources to evade capture.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2011
Her daughter, Pearl Ann, was already away at the university, and some speculated that Mrs. Larkin was less a person of means than she liked others to believe and maybe couldn’t afford to leave town.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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It was for these that he was most esteemed in his own day, being the fashionable portrait painter of Amsterdam at a time when every person of means wished to have his likeness painted.
From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
He seemed a person of means and leisure, but he knew nothing of recent concerts, theatres, or books.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Besides I found that a toga, over a poor man's tunic, was not nearly so uncomfortable as it was over the more complicated garb of a fashionable person of means and position.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas