leisure-class
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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
Plainly, this is a point at which a diligent application of effort and expenditure may materially further the attainment of a decent proficiency in the leisure-class properties.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Few are the leisure-class people who pursue writing as an art.
From A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart by Various
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