propertied

Example Sentences

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The people make demands upon the state, striking fear in the hearts of the propertied classes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

County, Sepulveda Boulevard, 40 miles from Mission Hills to Long Beach, named for Francisco Xavier Sepulveda, the propertied pioneer rancher and paterfamilias to the influential founding family.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

It doesn’t matter whether they are citizens or aliens; free, imprisoned or enslaved; enfranchised or disenfranchised; adults or children; propertied or propertyless.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

When America was founded, only white, propertied men could vote.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2021

The bourgeois view is that of the man who owns or expects to own property; the bourgeois class represents a small proportion of the whole population, and is sometimes described as the propertied class.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond