cushy
Example Sentences
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The prototypical agency holding company that long lured in staff with skyscraper offices, cushy expense accounts and multimillion-dollar clients is in disarray.
The former CEO once planned to spend his retirement in sunny Santa Fe, N.M., focused on charity work—and with a cushy seat on the board of Exxon.
You could say “I am worried that the newer models are too cushy and soft. Can you do an analysis for firmer shoes?”
The “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang” pushes the origin of gravy as “profit or benefit, especially if unexpectedly or easily obtained” — or as an adjective meaning “easy or cushy” — to decades earlier.
From Salon
You don’t want them to become soft because their parents made their life so cushy.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
