leisure-class
Example Sentences
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Enita, one of the leisure-class Sainted, provides ostensibly useful services to the working class in the last human city of Bulwark—she farms new limbs and organs for those who can’t afford medical care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
She was a leisure-class beauty who devoted her days to philanthropy and culture.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2015
Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss.
From Time Magazine Archive
The survival in the leisure class, and under the leisure-class scheme of life, of traits and types that are reminiscent of the predatory culture has already been discussed.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
As indicated above, the exemption from pecuniary stress has been carried farther in the case of the leisure-class women of the advanced industrial communities than in that of any other considerable group of persons.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
